Damascus, April 28 (SANA) On 16 April 2013, in a side street of Damascus’s Tadamon district, the Syrian revolution was reduced to a narrow strip of cracked asphalt, a white van, and a trench already filled with bodies and car tyres. Blindfolded men were led one by one to the edge of...

Just as people were enslaved during World War II to dig tunnels and build railways, young men from the Tadamon neighborhood in southern Damascus were forced to dig under threat of arms. Underground, with no safety and no way back, they were exploited to build National Defense Forces...

The Special Commissioner for Missing Persons at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bahia Mardini, affirmed that the trial of Atef Najib represents a historic step, as it is the first Syrian judicial decision to rely on international humanitarian law to prosecute perpetrators of torture and...

The first public trial in Syria of officials linked to the rule of former President Bashar al-Assad opened in Damascus Sunday. Atef Najib, a former Syrian army brigadier general who was head of the Political Security Branch in southern Syria’s Daraa province under al-Assad and who is also...