The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the ...

Mehdi al-Shayesh thought he would quickly resettle in his central Syrian hometown after Bashar al-Assad was ousted, but like ...

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