How the Assad Regime Covered Up Its Crimes: Key Takeaways

We documented how the dictator Bashar al-Assad and his henchmen conspired to hide evidence of torture and deaths of detainees ...

Ousted and in Exile, Generals Secretly Plot Insurgency in Syria

Hacked communications and a social media analysis reveal how former regime leaders are trying to arm fighters and exert ...
Newsweek

Shunned by Putin, Syria’s Ex-Dictator Lives in Isolation

Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is living in near-isolation in Russia, sidelined by President Vladimir Putin, one year after fleeing Syria following the collapse of his rule, according to a ...
WUFT

A momentous week as Syria celebrates lifting U.S. sanctions and a year without Assad

DAMASCUS, Syria — As they mark the first anniversary this week of toppling Bashar al-Assad's regime, Syrians are also celebrating another likely milestone. The U.S. is on the verge of removing ...
Forbes

A Year After Assad’s Fall, Russia Preserves Syrian Energy Influence

Extensive Russian influence in Syria goes back to the Soviet era and survived the collapse of the USSR and the end of communism. It appears that now Russian influence in Syria has survived the fall of ...
Boston Herald

A year after Bashar Assad fled, Syria struggles to heal

HOMS, Syria (AP) — A year ago, Mohammad Marwan found himself stumbling, barefoot and dazed, out of Syria’s notorious Saydnaya prison on the outskirts of Damascus as rebel forces pushing toward the ...
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

One Year After Assad's Fall: Iran's Strategic Collapse In Syria

The fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in December 2024 dealt a major blow to Iran, depriving it of a key Mediterranean base and supply route to Hezbollah. Iran spent up to $50 billion ...
CNN

A year on from the ousting of Assad, Syrians remember the pain but rejoice at their freedom

“Raise your head up high, you’re a free Syrian” goes the chorus of the Arabic song that has become the unofficial anthem of the new Syria. It’s everywhere in the capital Damascus – blasted out from ...
The Washington Post

Syria’s killing machine

The total number of dead detainees confirmed by a team of reporters from ICIJ. They conducted a data analysis of the photographs and confirmed the yearly totals. The data recorded at least 20 ...
WBUR

Assad operative’s claim that Austin Tice is dead is at center of new CNN report

A new 20-minute CNN investigation by chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward centers on Austin Tice, who was captured and detained in 2012 by the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria. Tice is the ...
Reuters

Exclusive: Assad government secretly moved mass grave to cover up killings, Reuters investigation finds

DHUMAIR, Syria, Oct 14 - The Assad government carried out a two-year clandestine operation to truck thousands of bodies from one of Syria’s largest known mass graves to a secret location more than an ...
AOL

Former Syrian Dictator Bashar al-Assad Reportedly Spends His Days Gaming It Out

Bashar al-Assad passes the time playing online video games in his Moscow high-rise, according to a former military officer close to the Assad family who spoke to German newspaper Die Zeit. The ousted ...