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Members of Syria's White Helmets civil defense service load boxes containing the remains of people found in the basement of a building in the city of al-Sbaynah, southwest of Damascus, on January 29, 2025. (Rami al SAYED / AFP)
December 8, 2025, 10:06 am
A year after Assad’s fall, families of missing detainees languish without answers
National commission probing fate of Syrians who vanished insists work must be careful, systematic; rights groups accuse it of slowing process by monopolizing information, resources
By Khalil Ashawi and Maya Gebeily
People celebrate on New Year's Eve at Umayyad Square in Damascus, Syria, December 31, 2024. (AP/Leo Correa)
January 3, 2025, 11:49 am
‘New political beginning’: German, French FMs to meet with nascent Syrian regime
First top level EU diplomats to visit Damascus since fall of Assad regime; German FM says coming with ‘outstretched hand’ as well as ‘clear expectations’ for new government
By Agencies
A woman looks at a room of the infamous Sednaya military prison, just north of Damascus, Syria, December 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
December 11, 2024, 10:18 pm
Woman haunts infamous Syrian prison, scouring for signs of missing relatives
Hayat al-Turki has searched the notorious Sednaya prison for four days, finding list of over 7,000 prisoners, wonders if discarded belongings were used by her brother
By Jehad Shalbak
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)
December 10, 2024, 10:07 am
Syria rebel leader vows to pursue former regime officials for torture, war crimes
Ahmed al-Sharaa says rewards will be offered for those who turn in senior army and security members involved in crimes, will seek return of those who fled abroad
By AFP
Jordanian journalist Yousef Alawnah speaks to Saudi 24 TV in an interview that aired on June 12, 2018. (screen capture: MEMRI)
June 29, 2018, 11:10 pm
Jordanian journalist ‘ashamed’ to compare dire Arab jails to Israel’s prisons
Yousef Alawnah describes 30 months behind bars in Israel as like being at an ‘institute of education,’ says other detainees in the region are ‘being held in dungeons’
By ToI Staff
A satellite image of what the State Department described as a building in a prison complex in Syria that was modified to support a crematorium, April 18, 2017. (State Department/DigitalGlobe via AP)
May 16, 2017, 3:48 pm
Syria says crematorium accusations ‘totally unfounded’
Damascus dismisses US allegations as ‘fabricated lies’ meant to ‘justify their aggressive and interventionist policies’
By Agencies
A satellite image of what the US State Department described as a building in a prison complex in Syria that was modified to support a crematorium, January 15, 2015. (State Department/DigitalGlobe via AP)
May 15, 2017, 7:24 pm
US accuses Syria of mass executions and burning bodies in crematorium
State Department says 50 people a day are hanged at Saydnaya military prison, then cremated to hide evidence of killings
By AP
Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks during an interview with Yahoo News in Damascus, Syria, Friday, Feb. 10, 2017 (SANA via AP)
February 16, 2017, 1:53 pm
Assad says retaking IS ‘capital’ Raqqa not a priority
Vowing to capture ‘every inch’ of Syria, embattled leader tells French media that Islamic State stronghold is just a symbol
By Gina DOGGETT
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