Human rights activist Ribal al-Assad condemned European countries for lifting sanctions on Syria's new "terrorist" regime ...

Assad's forces detained mothers and children and sent many of the youth to orphanages. Syrians whose children vanished during ...

Thousands of Syrians have poured into the streets and public squares to mark 14 years since the country’s civil war began, ...

In the worst outbreak of unrest since Syria’s transitional government took power, hundreds of people have been killed or ...

Fierce clashes over the past two days between security forces under Syria’s new Islamist government and gunmen belonging to ...

Syria’s Alawites – some 10% of the population – were prominent in the Assad regime, and while many Alawites have surrendered their weapons since December, many others have not. The attacks ...

“Since the fall of the Assad regime three months ago, this is perhaps one of the biggest security challenges that the new government is facing,” he said. The central government had sent ...

Over 1,300 people have been killed in fierce clashes between government forces and gunmen loyal to the Assad regime, according to a war monitor, in a serious challenge to the country’s new rulers.

The work of the Syria Strategy Project and the considerable policy recommendations found in this report present a realistic ...

A Syrian military operation against remnants of the former Assad regime has now ended, having sparked some of the worst violence seen in the country in years. Hundreds of people have been killed ...

Assad’s downfall would be a chance to come together and heal the wounds of the victims’ families. It was not to be. The ...

The unrest has been the bloodiest outbreak of violence since the Assad regime was ousted in early December by rebels who became the country’s new leaders. It presents a major test of the new ...