Assad's brutal regime saw thousands die in his 'human slaughterhouse' prisons - with some guards getting so carried away they ...

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — Syrians in D.C., Maryland and Virginia gathered at Lafayette Square on Sunday to celebrate the fall of Syria’s Bashar Assad’s regime. “Syrian people in 2011 took ...

Shiite rituals for Ashoura in Damascus have drastically changed after the fall of Syria's former President Bashar Assad. Once ...

Taher al-Zain’s father disappeared 12 years ago at the height of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Now, like thousands of other Syrians, he is trying to find clues about what happened, and whether or ...

Similarly, medical student Zain compared al-Assad’s regime to the Red Terror, the campaign of political repression and executions which took place in Russia from 1918-1922. Several of her cousins were ...

Investigating the Assad regime’s arrest, torture and execution of detainees during the Syrian war. FRONTLINE investigates the Assad regime’s arrest, torture and execution of detainees during ...

In Damascus' Zain al Abdeed neighborhood, mourners entered gathering halls after going through a search and screening with metal detectors. Qassem Soleiman, head of a body that coordinates between ...

This year, after Assad’s ouster in a lightning rebel offensive led by Sunni Islamist insurgents, the Shiite neighborhoods of Damascus were subdued. The hotels that were once brimming with ...