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In a state accustomed to burying facts before bodies, the search for her son has turned into a battle with institutions of oppression and denial. "Since 2014, I've been unable to sleep," says the mother of Mohammed Abdo, who was arrested in the Jdeidet Artouz area, southwest of Damascus....
An official document issued in 2010, a copy of which was obtained by Zaman al-Wasl, reveals the presence of mines planted around Sednaya Military Prison. There are no clear or approved maps identifying the locations of these mines, which were lost or hidden on the day the prison was...
A 2014 document found in Syria's notorious Sednaya Military Prison revealed an official request addressed to the highest military levels, requesting the preparation of a room to "preserve corpses" that could accommodate at least 50 bodies. The shocking justification for this request, as...
After months of deafening government silence, Zaman al-Wasl publishes video files documenting and revealing shocking details about the fate of hundreds of innocent children, sons and daughters of political detainees in Syria. These documents, which we present today to the Syrian public in...
"If I had lived one more day, I would have been dead," Ali Issa al-Sabsi, known as number 499, describes his harrowing experience in the National Defense Forces' detention centers in Syria. Al-Sabsi was working as a fuel tanker driver in Quneitra governorate when he was arrested with nine...
A list of dozens of militias established by the former Syrian regime during the years of the revolution to suppress the popular movement and fight alongside it. Documented by the "Black List Book," it includes the names of the militias, their number of members, their areas of deployment,...
In 2013, while working on a farm cutting firewood, Hussein Abdo Qarajah, a native of the village of Al-Matras in the Safita countryside, was arrested by a group of shabiha led by Basil Breidi, with the participation of pro-Assad militants from Ain al-Sahen and neighboring villages. Hussein...
In August 2013, Ahmed al-Youssef (born in 1997) was on his way home to the al-Duwaileh neighborhood of Damascus when he was kidnapped by members of the National Defense Militia, one of the most prominent arms of the fallen regime in its repression of civilians, led by Fadi Saqr. From the...
Zaman al-Wasl publishes photos of more than 200 detainees, including children, who were clearly photographed after being detained for a period of time at several checkpoints belonging to the National Defense Forces (NDF), the paramilitary forces then supporting the fallen Assad regime in...
On a single day in 2013, the unknown swallowed the couple Fahed Al-Fandi and Hanan Al-Marzouqi without a trace. Hanan was standing in Marjeh Square in central Damascus, while Fahed was in the besieged Yarmouk camp, when all news of them was cut off. Since then, no one has known their fate,...
On March 11, 2013, hordes of military security personnel raided the home of Dr. Rania Al-Abbasi, a Syrian chess champion, and arrested her and her six children. This happened to be the home of Majdoleen Al-Qadi, a young woman who worked as a secretary in Dr. Rania's clinic. Her fate, like that...
The photo above shows Mohammad Hassan Na'san Agha, born in Idlib in 1954. He was arrested by members of the State Security Branch in Idlib on May 26, 1980, amid a violent security campaign targeting thousands of Syrians at that time. The branch was then under the command of Brigadier...
In 1975, brothers Arabi and Muhammad Jawhar were arrested without a warrant and without any knowledge of the true reason for their detention. Those years were part of one of the most brutal periods of repression in Syria, where prisons and detention centers were used as tools to silence...
Noura, a child born just months after her father's arrest, had no idea that his fate had been sealed inside the dungeons of the most terrifying prison in modern Syrian history, the prisons of Hafez al-Assad. Mohamad Mamoun Khairo Shalabi, a graduate of the Arabic Language Department and a...
In the massive file published by Zaman al-Wasl newspaper, which includes the names of hundreds of people executed on the direct orders of Hafez al-Assad in the desert Tadmur Prison in central Syria between 1980 and 1985, the names of detainees of Arab nationalities, including Lebanese and...
Emails sent from several security branches to the fallen regime's National Security Directorate reveal the scale of the human tragedy that befell detainees in the security apparatus' dungeons during the first years of the Syrian revolution. While the fate of tens of thousands of detainees...
Two documents issued by the General Secretariat of the National Defense in Syria reveal tragic details about the deaths of a number of detainees in detention centers run by the National Defense, the auxiliary militia led by Fadi Saqr, one of the regime's most prominent security forces in the...
Leaked documents from the Syrian regime's Military Intelligence Division, specifically Unit 215, reveal a recurring pattern of mysterious deaths of Jordanian detainees inside regime prisons. These deaths were covered up by bureaucratically worded medical reports, while the evidence suggests the...
Zaman al-Wasl obtained photos of a notebook known as the "Death Book," belonging to one of the General Intelligence Directorate offices in Damascus. It contains 2,540 names of detainees during the Hafez al-Assad era, the oldest dating back to the 1980s and the most recent dating back to 1997....
Ever since Issam began to realize what was happening around him, he has been searching for any trace of his father, Khaled Hassan Madkouk, who was arrested by Hafez al-Assad's regime in Raqqa in 1980. The father disappeared, and his son continued to search tirelessly until he contacted...
