Between 2012 and 2014, the National Defense Militia in Damascus, led by Fadi Saqr, arrested dozens of children on charges of financing terrorism. The goal was to blackmail their families. The wealthy were exploited and forced to pay ransoms, while the children of the poor were tortured and...

The Syrian community in Iraq mourned the death of Fajr Imad al-Quntar, 21, who passed away on Friday afternoon in the Diyala region, northeast of the capital, Baghdad, just hours before he was scheduled to return to Syria. The local Suwayda 24 website quoted a source close to the deceased's...

Senior UN officials have warned that repeated Israeli attacks and violations on Syrian territory directly threaten the political transition the country has been undergoing since the fall of the former regime last December. This came during an emergency session convened by the UN Security...

Syrian Kurds are set to demand a federal system in post-Assad Syria that would allow regional autonomy and security forces, a senior Kurdish official told Reuters, doubling down on a decentralized vision opposed by the president. The demand for federal rule has gathered momentum as alarm...