Families of detainees in Syrian prisons are routinely forced to bribe officials to be allowed to visit them or to win their release, according to a report that reveals the vast scale of extortion in the detention system. The sums involved – rising as high as £2m in one jail - are likely...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said on Saturday that it has documented at least at least 1,882 cases of arbitrary arrest/ detention in Syria in 2020, 149 of them in December; detainees include 52 children and 39 women, the report notes, emphasizing that Syria is neither stable nor...

Syria on Saturday lambasted the US government for sanctions it has imposed on Damascus, following a UN special rapporteur's statement that called on Washington to remove unilateral sanctions against the war-torn country. The Syrian Foreign Ministry described US sanctions against the country...

The scale of assassinations and arrests in southern Daraa province has hiked since December amid ongoing security chaos that has increased since the Russian-brokered settlement between the Syrian regime and opposition factions in July 2018. A report by the Ahrar Horan Group, local...