Sharaa, a longtime Islamist militant, and has provided weapons, intelligence and cash to militiamen at odds with his rule.

A year ago, Syria’s new leader pledged to 'close the notorious prisons' run by Bashar al-Assad. But prisons and detention ...

Then came the second wave in late winter: Hundreds of people from Assad’s Alawite sect, mostly men, were seized by the new ...

Prisons and lockups that jailed tens of thousands of people during Assad’s rule are now crowded with Syrians detained by President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s security forces and held without formal charges.

Last Saturday, an Islamic State infiltrator ambushed a meeting between American soldiers and their local counterparts in a ...

The gunman who killed two U.S. soldiers and an American civilian interpreter had been set to be dismissed from the security ...

Assad's regime, Syrians also celebrate another coming milestone: the lifting of sanctions, which could help give the country ...

Critics say Syria’s fledgling government is hobbling military preparedness as it redoes the country’s forces from scratch.

ICIJ and its partners organized and analyzed thousands of chilling photographs to assemble comprehensive victim lists and ...

HOMS, Syria — A year ago, Mohammad Marwan found himself stumbling, barefoot and dazed, out of Syria's notorious Saydnaya prison on the outskirts of Damascus as rebel forces pushing toward the capital ...

Army helicopters fly overhead during a parade by the new Syrian army marking the first anniversary of the ousting of the Bashar Assad regime in Damascus, Syria, Monday. (Ghaith Alsayed | AP) HOMS, ...

Thaer al-Najjar sat in a cramped basement office in a Damascus hotel, his hands trembling as he glanced down at a single piece of paper. Only the whirring of a ceiling fan filled the silence.