Syria’s government has decreed that women should wear burkinis or other swimwear that covers the body at public beaches and swimming pools, while permitting Western-style beachwear at private clubs and luxury hotels. The tourism ministry decision issued this week marks the first time the...

Documents issued by the National Defense Forces in Damascus, which have been reviewed, reveal a systematic and horrific mechanism for concealing the bodies of a large number of detainees during the years of the Syrian revolution. Bodies were transported with secret numbers instead of names to...

In a striking statement, Hassan Soufan, a member of the Civil Peace Committee in Syria, revealed an ambiguous approach to dealing with the cases of senior officials of the former Assad regime, most notably former Interior Minister Mohammed al-Shaar and former head of the Political Security...

In the wake of major transformations experienced by any country undergoing a revolution, complex legal and constitutional challenges arise. Perhaps the most prominent of these challenges is the vacuum left by the fall of the constitution and the dilemma surrounding the fate of the laws that...