The camera captured the inhumane conditions in which detainees were held in the cells of Mezzeh Military Prison in the Syrian capital, Damascus. The footage showed the personal belongings of detainees still in the prison, which the detainees were released from after the fall of the...

UN experts called on Iran’s government to immediately repeal a new law that from Friday imposes a series of new penalties on women and girls who fail to wear a hijab. “The new hijab law marks an intensification of state control over women’s bodies in Iran and is a further assault on...

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday said Beijing calls for a “Syrian-led, Syrian-owned” political process in the war-torn Middle Eastern nation. Beijing has been “closely following the recent development of the situation in Syria,” Wang said after meeting his Egyptian...

Ahmed Hilmi, a Syrian human rights activist and survivor of the Baath regime’s prisons, is calling for justice for thousands of victims subjected to systematic torture and killings. “I want justice, not revenge,” said Hilmi, who endured three years in the regime’s detention centers and...