Thousands of documents and interviews with Assad-era officials reveal how the regime worked to conceal evidence of its ...

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

The Wall Street Journal reports that intelligence files recovered in Damascus after Assad’s fall reveal how Syria’s secret ...

Syria’s government has ordered soldiers to guard a mass grave created to conceal atrocities under Bashar al-Assad.

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 ...

Family friend, sources in Russia and Syria, and leaked data help give rare insight into life of dictator’s reclusive household ...

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 ...

DAMASCUS, Syria—During 13 years of revolution and war, the Syrian dictatorship of President Bashar al-Assad set a high water mark for cruelty in the 21st century, disappearing tens of thousands of ...

Damascus, Syria – On the morning of December 5, 2025, a taxi drove me across the Lebanon-Syria border. This time was different from my first trip across, in the early hours of December 9, 2024, just a ...

Tens of thousands of Syrians flooded the streets of Damascus on Monday to mark the first anniversary of the Assad regime’s collapse. The celebrations came a year after former Syrian dictator Bashar al ...

Syrians marked the first anniversary of the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad and his iron-fisted rule on Monday, as the fractured nation struggles to find stability and recover after years of war.