He was dead within the year. She took much longer to find the words to tell her children. Assad’s surveillance apparatus was so far-reaching that when people said the walls had ears, they were ...

A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved in suppressing the protests that started the 2011 ...

Assad's cousin, is accused of committing human rights abuses, including the torture of children during the regime's crackdown ...

Syria’s Civil Defense has uncovered over two dozen charred bodies in two basements in rural Damascus, adding to the growing ...

Protests against the Assad regime spread quickly in the spring of that year after a group of children were arrested and tortured for writing anti-regime graffiti on walls in the city of Deraa.