Human Rights Watch stressed the need for the Syrian government to preserve evidence and documents related to detainees who were in the prisons of the ousted regime. The human rights organization said that tens of thousands of Syrians were forcibly disappeared by the security and...

Germany on Friday called for international efforts to hold the perpetrators of the Assad regime accountable for their crimes, according to press reports. The lives of the victims of the regime of long-time ruler Bashar al-Assad who died there cannot be brought back, said Foreign Minister...

Syrian security forces are conducting a security sweep in the city of Homs, state media reported Thursday, with a monitor saying targets include protest organizers from the Alawite minority of the former president. “The Ministry of Interior, in cooperation with the Military Operations...

The wife and daughter of one of deposed Syrian president Bashar Assad’s cousins were arrested Friday at the Beirut airport, where they attempted to fly out with allegedly forged passports, Lebanese judicial and security officials said. Assad’s uncle departed the day before. Rasha...