Paris – At least 131,469 detainees or forcibly disappeared persons have been held by the Syrian regime since March 2011, said the Syrian Network for Human Rights on Thursday.    According to SNHR’s database at least 149,862 of the individuals, detained or forcibly disappeared at...

Five Syrian soldiers have been killed and 20 injured in a rocket attack on a military transport bus in the east of the country. Sunday’s attack took place at approximately 7pm (17:00 GMT), Syrian state media reported on Monday, adding that a military vehicle in the Badia area came under a...

The war in Syria marked its ten-year anniversary in 2021, another grim milestone for the country that appears marching onward into terminal decline. While levels of violence in 2020 remained relatively low compared to other years, for many in Syria the situation is as grim as ever....

Paphos, Cyprus – Mustafa*, his wife and their four children felt a sense of relief last summer as they entered a condominium overlooking the shimmering Mediterranean Sea. After 10 years of hardship, during which they first fled Syria’s brutal war and then Lebanon’s relentless economic...