In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

The new interim Syrian government says it will hunt down and punish senior security officials and others, but concern is ...

A Syrian former equestrian champion has told how he was jailed and tortured for 21 years after he beat Bashar al Assad's older brother in a competition. Adnan Kassar, once a celebrated figure in ...

In 2022, the independent Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) monitoring group alleged that between 30,000 to 40,000 civilians had been killed in Hama. Switzerland's Attorney General's Office ...

Fierce clashes erupted on Thursday between security forces of Syria’s transitional government and loyalists of ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad, as the new rulers struggle to re-establish ...

An NGO says Mohammed Kanjo Hassan sentenced thousands of people to death. He was arrested by Syria's new authorities, together with his entourage. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human ...

Syria was already so heavily sanctioned that few cords connecting it to the global financial system were left to cut. "We're talking about a country whose economy is about the size of Pittsburgh's ...

Syria’s new Interior Minister Mohammed Abdel Rahman says 14 "interior ministry personnel" were killed by what he described as the "remnants of the Assad regime”. Clashes took place in multiple ...

HAMA, Syria — For more than four decades, the Assad family made sure that the horrors it committed here stayed unspeakable — killing tens of thousands of Hama residents over a savage month ...

Nearly a month after his militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) shocked the world by ending the Assad family’s 53-year reign of power in Syria, the onetime detainee in a U.S military prison ...

Alawite protests also took place along the coast of Syria, in the city of Homs and the Hama countryside. Some called for the release of soldiers from the former Syrian army now imprisoned by the HTS.

On Tuesday, hundreds of demonstrators protested in Christian areas of Damascus against the burning of a Christmas tree near central Syria’s Hama. The HTS promised to restore it promptly.