BBC Umm Mazen still doesn’t know the fate of two of her sons who were arrested during the pro-democracy protests that started the Syrian civil war The new Syrian authorities promise justice for crimes under the Assad regime. But it’s a tall order, with many having suffered losses of every kind in the civil war. […]
BBC Jamil Hassan, one of the most feared men in Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian regime, wanted for the torture and killing of civilians, was shaking as he walked down the stairs of his apartment block. Outside, the 72-year-old climbed into a car in a small convoy with his family and a handful of security guards, just […]
A Syrian Air flight from Damascus landed in Aleppo on Wednesday, as the transitional government tries to demonstrate its ability to run the war-shattered country.
While Syrians celebrated the toppling of the Assad regime following a swift operation by rebel forces on Sunday, Israel moved in. The Israeli military launched half a dozen airstrikes on Syrian targets and parked tanks inside Syria’s borders, in violation of a 50-year ceasefire pact. Israeli airstrikes on Sunday targeted apparent missile and chemical weapons […]
At the country’s most notorious prison, Syrians confront their worst fears: that they will never know what happened to the loved ones who disappeared.
Early on the morning of December 8, Suhail AlGhazi did the unthinkable: He spoke with his family in Syria openly, and without fear. AlGhazi fled Syria in 2013 after taking part in early protests against the regime of Bashar al-Assad and surviving two brutal and terrifying stints in prison. Now living in Europe, he has […]
The illegal amphetamine, used across the Middle East, became Syria’s biggest export during its 13-year civil war.
BBC Syrians have come to the hospital in Damascus looking to find missing loved ones On a painted wall outside Damascus’s Mustahed Hospital are photographs of the faces of dead men. A constantly changing crowd of people examine them, squinting against the low winter sun at men who look as if they died in great […]
By Maya Gebeily, Suleiman Al-Khalidi, Ahmed Rasheed and Timour Azhari DAMASCUS/AMMAN/BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Twenty-three-year-old Syrian military conscript Farhan al-Khouli was badly paid and demoralized. His army outpost in scrubland near the rebel-held city of Idlib should have had nine soldiers but it just had three, after some had bribed the commanding officers to escape serving, […]
Camping in the grounds of Syria’s most notorious “slaughterhouse” prison north of Damascus and scouring the halls of overflowing hospitals and morgues, desperate relatives search for Syria’s missing. Clutching photos, identification cards, and screenshots of old images, families of those swallowed into the regime’s notorious jails and judicial system flock to anyone they think might […]
