A total of 14,388 people tortured to death in Syrian civil war since March 2011 were mostly by the Bashar al-Assad regime, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR). Ahead of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, SNHR, which documents violations of civil...

Syria’s Bashar Assad has been counted out before. There were times during his country’s civil war, which has killed hundreds of thousands of people and pushed more than 12 million more from their homes, when it seemed the only way forward for all the major parties involved would be for...

Just last year, President Bashar al-Assad seemed on the brink of crowning military victories by easing his diplomatic isolation and recovering more of Syria without a bullet being fired. Not only had US-allied Kurds invited government forces back to the northeast, but businessmen from the...

While the U.S. Caesar Act is supposed to act as a pressure factor regulating the Syrian regime’s finances and resources, Bashar al- Assad regime is preparing to obtain an amount of approximately one billion pounds within a few days. This amount is expected to be obtained through one of the...