(Zaman Al Wasl)- Well-informed sources told Zaman al-Wasl that regime president Bashar al-Assad will issue a decree granting a general amnesty to opposotion detainees over a Russian demand. Russia is pressing on the Assad regime to show a good-will sign ahead of the planned peace talks...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A former detainee at Tadmur (Palmyra) Military Prison recounts the stories of several detainees who were held in the famous prison known as the Syrian Bastille. He tells of their tragedies and pains which remained unheard throughout the 1980s. Some of the people whose...

Despite the passage of years, a Syrian refugee in Turkey is still haunted by the horrors of her past under the Assad regime. Muna B., 33, has been living in the Reyhanli district of Turkey’s southeastern Hatay province for two years. Before fleeing to Turkey, she was arrested...

More than 100,000 people have been detained inside war-torn Syria since the outbreak of the Syrian conflict in 2011, according to a London-based NGO.  In a statement on Monday, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said some 106,727 people have been held since March...