Shia pilgrims from Syria and abroad used to flock to the Sayyida Zeinab shrine outside of Damascus every year to commemorate Ashoura, a solemn day marking the 7th-century martyrdom of the Prophet ...

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

Assad's 'human slaughterhouse' prisons have been well-documented, where thousands died or vanished after being imprisoned ...

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

Assad's regime was brutal and deadly and it's estimated that 13,000 people were executed in just one of his prisons, where ...

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT - The prison was responsible for the deaths of up to 13,000 people in just four years with ...

Assad used chlorine and sarin repeatedly during the Syrian civil war. Following a particularly horrible sarin attack in Ghouta in 2013, Assad agreed to eradicate his chemical weapons program, but ...

Israel said Monday it is "interested" in striking peace agreements with neighbouring Lebanon and Syria, a potentially ...

Sunday evening's attack on the Saint Elias church, in the Dweil'a district on the southern outskirts of the Old City in ...

Premieres Tuesday, July 1, 2025 at 10:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Syria's uncertain future under Jihadist-turned-statesman Ahmad al-Sharaa. After the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Correspondent ...

Six months after Assad’s fall, Syrian torture survivors face severe medical, psychological, and legal neglect, amid funding cuts and calls for justice.

The arrest of Wasim al-Assad on June 21, 2025, marks a critical milestone in Syria’s post-conflict transition. As the first member of the Assad family to be detained since the regime’s collapse in ...