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Memory of 'cancer death woman' still vivid in Syria

The story of Saihe Nedim Barudi, a Syrian woman who contracted cancer after spending three months in regime prisons, is still vivid in the memory of her friends. Barudi, 55, died in February, almost five years after she was arrested by regime forces in the west-central Hama province on...

Damascus abusing terror law to freeze assets: rights group

The Syrian regime is abusing a 2012 counter-terrorism law to punish the families of suspects by freezing their assets, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday, charging it amounted to "collective punishment". "By penalizing people solely on the basis of their family relationship with an accused...