Tag: Assad
The Missing Enforcers of the Assad Regime
This ongoing reporting project aims to uncover the roles and whereabouts of the key officials who powered President Bashar al-Assad’s brutal reign in...
Syria holds first elections since Assad, but not in all provinces
ReutersSharaa has defended the way the elections are being held. "As a transitional period, there is a difficulty to hold popular elections due...
Mothers and staff tell of global charity’s role in child disappearances...
Haya Al Badarneh & Jess KellyBBC Eye InvestigationsBBC"It's been six months since the liberation and yet there's still no clear path for mothers...
داخل أكثر سجون سوريا رعبًا
لم يكن هناك مكان في سوريا أكثر رعباً من سجن صيدنايا خلال عقود الحكم الاستبدادي لعائلة الأسد. يقع سجن صيدنايا على تلة قاحلة...
In Syria, a City Shattered by War Asks for Its Sacrifice...
Mohammed al-Abad, a wiry young man wearing black jeans and wraparound shades, drives his motorcycle several times a week up a gravel hill...
What It Was Like Inside Syria’s Most Fearsome Prison
No place in Syria was more feared than Sednaya prison during the Assad family’s decades-long, iron-fisted rule. Situated on a barren...
How the Assad Regime Built a Mass Grave in Syria
Months after President Bashar al-Assad’s regime was toppled, Charlie Smart, a reporter at The New York Times, traveled to a mass burial site...
Photos: A Road Trip Through Syria After the Fall of Bashar...
After one of the most brutal wars of this century, a new Syria is rising from the disastrous legacy of...