Under Bashar al-Assad’s rule, age is just a number that does not exempt anyone from being accused of terrorism, the regime’s favorite strategy to use against anyone who opposes it. The family of Dr. Rania Al-Abbasi suffered a similar fate, when she was arrested 8 years ago with her...

  The United States demanded Tuesday that the status of tens of thousands of civilians detained in Syria during the country’s 10-year conflict be made public, and that the bodies of those who died be returned to their loved ones. U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield made the...

Late one night in 2015, a friend of Yasmen Almashan tagged a photo to her Facebook account. The notification ended a tormented wait for a sign from her brother, detained three years earlier by Syrian troops. The photo of Okba, Almashan’s older brother, was among thousands of graphic...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- In her dreams, she stands in protest on university campus with the security services and military protecting her from the supporters of the regime. But, as soon as she calls for freedom, the dream fades and she wakes up to a tragic reality within the walls of her prison cell....