(THE CONVERSATION) Shortly after the fall of Bashar Assad in Syria in December 2024, reports emerged of mass graves being uncovered in liberated areas.

Syria said Wednesday a new government would take over next month from the interim cabinet formed following Bashar al-Assad's ...

He said they found the bodies in the basement but chose not to report it out of fear of government reprisals. “We could not tell the regime about it because we know that the regime did this.” The ...

Madh'an, former forensic officer in Syria’s military police, breaks his silence on smuggling thousands of photos exposing ...

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...

Tens of thousands of people went missing in Syria during the Assad family's rule, which stretches back to the early 1970s. A ...

The Syrian military defector who documented atrocities committed by the Bashar Assad regime by smuggling tens of thousands of ...

Madhan, a Syrian military police defector, risked his life 11 years ago to provide the first official evidence of torture on ...

The Trump administration’s unprecedented freeze on foreign aid has caused chaos and uncertainty in a camp holding thousands ...

Many Kurdish families were among the Syrians who visited the Tadamun area of Damascus after the fall of the regime of Bashar ...

Decades of authoritarian rule have left Syria’s justice system ill-equipped to handle complex human rights cases. Thousands ...

Syria will have a new government as of March 1, the country's interim foreign minister announced on Wednesday. Syria has been led by interim president Ahmed Al-Sharaa, the leader of former al Qaeda ...