President Bashar al-Assad said on Sunday Syria was suffering an "economic siege" as his regime faces a raft of international sanctions over the eight-year civil war. "The war on Syria has taken on a new form that is basically siege and economic war," he said, according to a statement...

In August 2014, Ma'ad  al-Najras  was on his way for his last exam in Law school in eastern Deir Ezzor city, but he arrested by the military intelligence.  Then, his name appeared on the list that was published by Zaman al-Wasl of 8,000 people died under torture in the...

 ( Zaman Al Wasl)-  Near the Umayyad Square, few blocks from Bashar al-Assad's Palace  in Damascus , hundreds of Syrian were victims of the arbitrary arrest and forced disappearing.  Al-Tahouna prison, or Mill prison,  is affiliated to the elite Republican...

The United Nations refugee agency should have a bigger presence inside Syria to observe and help refugees returning from abroad and from displacement within the war-torn country, UNHCR Commissioner Filippo Grandi said on Saturday. After almost eight years of fighting, President Bashar...