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Members of a UN investigative team take samples near the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria, August 28, 2013. (AP/United Media Office of Arbeen)
May 26, 2026, 9:55 pm
Syria locates materials from Assad’s chemical weapons program, arrests suspects
More than 70 rockets and aerial bombs uncovered, as well as raw ingredients for the production of sarin, which was used on Syrians during the 14-year civil ​war
By Anthony Deutsch
The mugshot of Adnan Abboud Hilweh, an Assad-era general who was arrested by Syria for allegedly being behind chemical attacks against civilians, after his arrest on April 29, 2026. (Syrian Interior Ministry / SANA)
April 30, 2026, 12:11 am
Syria arrests former Assad-era general accused of 2013 chemical attack involvement
Interior Ministry says it detained Adnan Abboud Hilweh, who it says was responsible for sarin nerve gas ‘massacre’ on Damascus-area suburb Ghouta, which killed over 1,000
By AFP
Atef Najib, former head of the Political Security Branch in the Daraa area during Bashar al-Assad's rule, sits in the defendants' cage during a trial session at the Palace of Justice in Damascus, Syria, April 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
April 26, 2026, 7:11 pm
Syria’s first public trial of Assad-era officials begins in Damascus
Bereaved families demand death penalty, starting with Atef Najib, a former general and cousin of the ousted dictator who was allegedly behind the torture of children in 2011
By GHAITH ALSAYED
A handout picture released by the Syrian Interior Ministry's Telegram page on June 21, 2025, of Wassim al-Assad, a cousin of toppled Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, after the country's official news agency SANA said he was detained. (Syrian Interior Ministry Telegram Page / AFP)
April 25, 2026, 8:45 pm
Syria to begin trying Assad-era figures Sunday, justice ministry official says
Cases against security officials and militia leaders accused of atrocities signal first test for Syria’s new justice system
By AFP
Former Syrian intelligence officer Amjad Yousef after his arrest in the central province of Hama, in an image published on April 24, 2026. (Syrian Interior Ministry/X)
April 25, 2026, 1:46 am
Syria says it arrested ex-intel officer filmed taking part in 2013 Damascus massacre
Syria says Amjad Yousef was one of several officers caught on leaked video shooting dozens of prisoners into trench in Damascus suburb near Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk
By GHAITH ALSAYED
A man looks at the damage after a house was hit by a rocket reportedly fired by Hezbollah in central Israel on March 12, 2026. (Ilia YEFIMOVICH / AFP)
March 12, 2026, 9:01 pm
Rocket barrages underscore remaining potency of Hezbollah’s gutted arsenal
Israeli strikes and supply disruptions have degraded Iran-backed group’s capabilities, yet experts say it may still have enough firepower for weeks
By Stav Levaton and Emanuel Fabian
Syrian army helicopters hover near Mezzeh military airport in Damascus on November 10, 2025. (LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)
February 2, 2026, 4:52 am
Syria says it detained group that used Hezbollah arms for attacks on airport
Mezzeh military airport in Damascus had been targeted by several strikes in recent months; Lebanese terror group, which was allied with ousted Assad regime, denies allegation
By Reuters and ToI Staff
A local walks past cells as he guides journalists visiting the Palmyra Prison Complex formerly used by the ousted Assad government in Syria's central city of Palmyra on February 7, 2025.(OMAR HAJ KADOUR / AFP, file)
December 22, 2025, 3:50 pm
A year post-Assad, Syrian jails are again filling up, with widespread accounts of abuse
Though the Sharaa regime vowed to shutter Assad’s notorious jails, tallies show they are locking hundreds of people up without charges, overcrowding the same prisons they emptied
By MAGGIE MICHAEL
Illustrative: Syria's then-president Bashar al-Assad visits the Flying Eye Hospital of the international ORBIS Charity at Aleppo international airport, on June 25, 2008. (AFP PHOTO/HO/SANA)
December 16, 2025, 4:16 am
Exiled in Moscow, toppled Syrian dictator said to make quiet return to ophthalmology
Report says Bashar al-Assad and his family are living a luxurious life in Russia and UAE, though cut off from political power and considered ‘irrelevant’ by Putin
By Nava Freiberg
A man shows two ropes tied in the shape of nooses, found in the infamous Saydnaya military prison, just north of Damascus, Syria, December 9, 2024. (Hussein Malla/AP)
November 11, 2025, 6:18 pm
Exiled Syrian opens up about precariously smuggling out proof of Assad’s cruelty
Ussama Uthman, his wife and brother-in-law obtained tens of thousands of images showing detainee abuse — drawing global attention and enabling families to learn loved ones’ fates
By Sam McNeil
Syria's interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, (R) welcomes then-British Foreign Secretary David Lammy in Damascus, Syria on July 5, 2025. (SANA/AFP)
October 21, 2025, 10:40 pm
UK drops terror label for Syria’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which helped topple Assad
Government says move will allow for closer engagement with new Syrian leadership, including by working together to remove vestiges of Assad’s chemical weapons program
By AFP
A drone view of the mass grave site in the desert near the eastern Syrian town of Dhumair, February 27, 2025. A Reuters investigation found that the Assad government secretly trucked thousands of bodies there from an exposed mass grave in the Damascus suburb of Qutayfah from 2019 to 2021. (REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi)
October 15, 2025, 6:36 am
Exposed: Syria’s Assad government secretly moved mass grave to cover up killings
For 2 years, dictator’s military ordered bodies moved from a known mass grave to secret desert location; witness accounts suggest new site may hold tens of thousands of remains
By MAGGIE MICHAEL, Feras Dalatey, Ryan McNeill and Khalil Ashawi
Pills of captagon are pictured after their burning to be disposed of upon their discovery at Mazzeh Military Airport in the west of Damascus on December 12, 2024. (Aris Messinis/AFP)
June 28, 2025, 4:19 pm
Syrian forces seize 3 million captagon pills in operation near Lebanese border
Damascus says forces set up a roadside ambush that ‘led to clashes between the security forces and members of the cell’; drug was key source of income for ousted Assad regime
By AFP
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, shakes hands with Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, before their meeting in Tehran, Iran, on February 25, 2019. (SANA via AP)
May 1, 2025, 5:35 pm
Document shows Iran had imperial plans in Syria that were foiled by Assad’s collapse
A 33-page study found in Iran’s ransacked embassy in Damascus outlines what Tehran saw as its version of ‘Marshall Plan’ to economically and militarily control Syria
By John DAVISON, Allison Martell and Reade Levinson
Syrian Alawite families who fled the clashes in Syria hold their luggage as they cross a river marking the border between Syria and northern Lebanon near the village of Heker al-Daher in Akkar province, Lebanon, March 11, 2025. (Hussein Malla/AP)
April 15, 2025, 12:15 pm
Fearful Syria’s Alawites still face attacks a month after wave of deadly violence
Members of former ruling minority say Sunni vengeance against ousted regime has continued, as tens of thousands flee to neighboring Lebanon
By BASSEM MROUE and Kareem Chehayeb
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