CNN's Clarissa Ward witnessed firsthand the incredible moment an incarcerated man at one of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's notorious prisons became a free man.

Sky News sees bags of faeces, nooses, a torture chamber and an alleged "crushing machine" inside the facility, warned about for years by human rights groups as a symbol of the brutality of the Assad ...

Since then, as the war intensified, the prison became, by all accounts, even more terrible. In 2021, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights calculated that as many as thirty thousand people had been ...

On Wednesday, at Sednaya, a political prison in Syria, hundreds of people prowled the grounds. It was the third day after an astonishing rebel offensive deposed Bashar al-Assad, who had ruled as a ...

I was born and raised in Damascus, Syria, where I lived for ten years of my life. My nationalism, as a member of the diaspora, is naturally f ...

The rapid fall of Syria’s autocratic ruler, Bashar al-Assad, this past weekend was one of the most consequential developments ...

Sky's Yalda Hakim has been to see Sednaya prison, on the outskirts of Damascus and spoke to family who's loved one was killed there.

The commander of Syria's rebels who overthrew the regime of President Bashar Assad, Ahmad Sharaa, said Wednesday that those ...

The Post's Berlin bureau chief Loveday Morris traveled to Sednaya prison outside Damascus, Syria, on Dec. 10, as Syrians ...

Follow the latest on Syria There were 34 photographs of decaying corpses taped to a wall outside the morgue of Damascus ...

Under Syria's president, a vast jail complex in the capital Damascus was known as a place where Syrians were disappeared without trial. Now it's crowded with with families searching for loved ones.

Under Syria's president, a vast jail complex in the capital Damascus was known as a place where Syrians were disappeared without trial. Now it's crowded with with families searching for loved ones.