Iraqi Parliament Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani has called for high-level coordination among key regional players—including ...

The FCDO advises against all travel to parts of Turkey as fighting in Syria continues in areas close to the Turkish border ...

The overthrow of the Syrian government is a triumph for Turkiye’s Tayyip Erdogan and for Syria’s western enemies led by the ...

Ahmed Al-Sharaa, the head of the new Syrian administration, told Asharq Al-Awsat that “the Syrian revolution ended with the ...

At the country’s most notorious prison ... Syria-Jordan border, his father said. A police officer then called his father and demanded $1,000 in exchange for his son’s release. Mr. al-Debs ...

Samir Ousman al-Sheikh, who oversaw Syria's infamous Adra Prison from 2005 to 2008 under recently ousted President Bashar al-Assad, was charged by a federal grand jury in California with several ...

Times of Israel joins troops at Syrian army post that was abandoned with fall of Assad's regime; IDF has quickly implemented plans originally drawn up for a potential Iran-backed attack ...

SEDNAYA PRISON, Syria — The grounds of Syria’s most notorious ... Since the fall on Sunday morning of Bashar al-Assad — who presided for 24 years over the totalitarian police state he ...

On Wednesday, at Sednaya, a political prison in Syria, hundreds of people prowled the grounds. It was the third day after an astonishing rebel offensive deposed Bashar al-Assad, who had ruled as a ...

On 9 December 2024, the day the regime fell into the hands of the militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), 23 journalists were behind bars and ten were missing, including seven victims of enforced ...

Syria, on Monday, Dec. 9, 2024. Crowds are gathering to enter the prison, known as the “human slaughterhouse,” after thousands of inmates were released following the rebels’ overthrow of Bashar ...

Omar Alshogre describe his experience in Syria ... Saydnaya prison as Syrian rescuers search for potential hidden basements at the facility in Damascus, Dec. 9, 2024. Mohammed Al-Rifai/AFP ...