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...

A number of Druze community leaders in Sweida province continued their meetings with government officials for the second day in a row, affirming their commitment to national affiliation and their rejection of any foreign interference in Syria's internal affairs, according to the official Syrian...

Despite all the political transformations that Syria has witnessed since the fall of the Assad regime, the regime's security structure remains deeply entrenched in the humanitarian and relief efforts that continue to this day within international organizations with branches in Syria,...

Mohammed Yahya, the Second Secretary at the Syrian Embassy in the Omani capital, Muscat, continues to obstruct and deny the rights of Syrians, especially those who contributed to the revolutionary movement against Bashar al-Assad, according to three independent testimonies obtained by Zaman...

The Syrian General Security Service arrested Samer Jassem al-Mohamad, who served as deputy head of the Information Branch of the State Security Service in Deir ez-Zor governorate, on Saturday. The governorate's official Telegram channel stated that al-Muhammad served as deputy head of the...

Anadolu captured footage of the T4 Airbase in central Syria, a facility that has Israel is trying to destroy with airstrikes. The T4 Airbase, located west of the ancient city of Palmyra in Homs province, was used for years by the now-ousted regime of Bashar Assad. One of the country’s largest...

Exclusive sources revealed to Zaman al-Wasl that Brazilian authorities have foiled an unprecedented smuggling attempt that began in Uruguay and entered the capital, Brasilia. M. Youssef, the nephew of Syrian Consul Gabriel Youssef, was arrested while using an official diplomatic vehicle...

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...

The Syrian Coast Guard announced on Saturday that it had thwarted an escape attempt by more than 30 civilians aboard a boat attempting to leave the country through territorial waters towards a neighboring country. The state-run news agency (SANA) reported that a Coast Guard patrol spotted...

An informed source reported that Fotouh Qudsiyeh, the daughter of Assad-era general Abdul Fattah Qudsiyeh, is still working at the Syrian Embassy in Muscat, Oman, where she serves as an advisor. She is known for her fierce loyalty to the ousted Bashar al-Assad. According to the source, she...

A man was killed on Saturday when a landmine, left over from the war, exploded while plowing agricultural land in the Maarat al-Numan countryside in northern Idlib province. The explosion completely destroyed the agricultural tractor and killed the young man instantly, according to the...

Turkey scoped out at least three air bases in Syria where it could deploy forces as part of a planned joint defense pact before Israel hit the sites with air strikes this week, four people familiar with the matter said. The bombardment signals the risks of a deepening rift between two...

Syria welcomed a United Nations resolution on Friday to investigate violations and improve the country’s human-rights record following the 13-year civil war waged by former President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. The resolution, which calls for Syria’s new government to support inquiries into...

Scores of US-backed Kurdish fighters left two neighborhoods in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo Friday as part of a deal with the central government in Damascus, which is expanding its authority in the country. The fighters left the predominantly Kurdish northern neighborhoods of Sheikh...

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...

Public Security on Thursday arrested Mahmoud Badawi al-Hussein in Deir ez-Zor governorate, according to a statement from the governorate's official Telegram channel. Sources indicated that al-Hussein previously served as head of the Military Security detachment in the region. This comes...

For more than a decade, the names of thousands of Syrian activists, defectors, and medics remain present in the memory of the revolution, while their bodies disappear into prisons and then mass graves, with no information about their fate. The following are the names of five residents of...

Saudi Arabia on Thursday condemned Israeli strikes on Syria, reiterating its rejection of what it described as Israel’s attempts to threaten Syria’s stability. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expresses the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s strong condemnation and denunciation of the Israeli raids...

The southern province of Daraa witnessed large crowds participating in the funerals of the martyrs of the Israeli aggression that targeted several sites in the province on Wednesday evening, in a new escalation that is increasing tensions in the region. According to images published by the...