Inside the infamous prison's corridors it becomes clear how hard it will be to mend the Syria that Assad broke.

Turkey has drawn extensively from the U.S. counterterrorism post-9/11 playbook to go after exiled political enemies, in ...

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More than 50 years of the Assads means 50 years of disappearances, of incarceration, of killing. It means pitiless cruelty to ...

In making this selection, the countries most satisfied with their own moral importance chose compromise and fun over principles ...

Saydnaya military prison is Syria's most notorious gulag, a dungeon of tiny concrete cells nicknamed "the human ...

In Syria's capital Damascus the hope of a country freed from its longtime dictator Bashar al Assad was starting to fade at ...

One woman said her son had been missing for a decade. He was accused of being a militant; she said he was a nurse.

A free Syria is a blessing after Assad's fall. And though the future is uncertain, Syrians are determined to shape their ...

For all the barbarity of the Assad regime, the revolution that's replaced it feels almost civilised. People came to quietly ...

Freed inmates run through Damascus streets, hold up the fingers of both hands to show how many years they were in prison, ask ...