At least 190 people imprisoned for their participation in the Syrian revolution are living in Roumieh Prison, northeast of Beirut, in dire conditions after years of arbitrary detention without fair trials. They face severe overcrowding, inadequate or almost non-existent medical care, and...

On June 28, 2014, the first day of Ramadan, Abdul Aziz Haitham Omar Agha, a 32-year-old Syrian man, was arrested at the al-Qutayfah checkpoint in the Damascus countryside while attempting to leave the country for Turkey. He was accompanied by his wife, two young children (one less than two...

Bashar al-Jaafari, the Syrian regime's Deputy Foreign Minister and former ambassador to the United Nations, published a statement protesting what he described as the "confiscation of his real estate properties" in Damascus, lamenting his rights as a citizen and claiming that he had spent...

Syria’s president on Saturday received a Republican member of Congress in the first visit to the country by American legislators since the ouster of former leader Bashar Assad in December. State news agency SANA did not give details about the meeting between President Ahmad al-Sharaa and...