Syria bears a heavy legacy of institutional violence, embodied by the security branches and prisons spread across the country ...

Khateeb, is a human rights activist, head of the documentation department at the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) and a former detainee. She is from Hama province.

PARIS — With the signing of an agreement between Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) commander Mazloum Abdi on March 10, many Syrians breathed a sigh of relief. The ...

DARAYYA/DOUMA — In the 12th century, the Andalusian poet and traveler Ibn Jubayr described the agricultural lands around Damascus as “the halo around the moon.” “Its green valley extends east as far ...

JARAMANA/SUWAYDA — Syrians across the country took to the streets this week on the March 18 anniversary of the revolution to protest Israel’s resumption of the war on Gaza—as well as strikes on Syria ...

AL-MASSAOUDIYE — Sara (a pseudonym) wore a fuzzy rainbow jacket, her blue rubber sandals caked in thick mud as she trudged up the road from the river marking Lebanon’s northern border with Syria on ...

PARIS — Syria’s new government reached a landmark agreement with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Monday to integrate “all civilian and military institutions” in the country’s northeast into the ...

SUWAYDA/PARIS — Local military groups took to main streets and central squares in Syria’s southern Suwayda province on Thursday night, raising the Druze flag and firing into the air. The armed ...

DAMASCUS/PARIS — After at least 200 civilians were killed in two days of bloodshed, Syria’s Ministry of Defense and General Security Forces halted operations on the coast against forces loyal to the ...

After two days of bloodshed that killed hundreds, Syria’s Ministry of Defense halted military operations on the coast against forces loyal to the deposed Assad regime on Saturday pending the removal ...

DAMASCUS — Flowers fell from a Syrian army helicopter on Saturday, strewn over Damascus alongside scraps of paper with messages of congratulation as residents of the capital marked the 14th ...