«...ثم يأتي مشهد من صور: رجل يقف فوق الركام، يبحث عن ابنه العالق تحته. يداه مشبوكتان بإحكام، كمن يعرف مكان الفقدان ولا يستطيع الوصول إليه. يميل جسده إلى الأمام، كأنّه يقاوم اندفاعة ليحفر بيديه العاريت...

Under the Assad regime, hundreds of Syrian children were hidden in orphanages to extort their parents. Families still have few answers from the new government or the international charity that kept it...

Returning to a city in turmoil, one woman challenges her community to rise above fear, confront hard questions and consider how to rebuild

The city’s takeover by Islamist rebel groups is reviving minority fears of being reduced to second-class citizens

New Lines reports exclusively on the details leading up to Aleppo's fall

The rebel advance in Aleppo has taken everyone by surprise, including Assad. While the future is murky at best, Syrians can hope again, says Leila al-Shami.

War crime researchers tricked Assad intelligence officers into confessing to the crime, and a chilling journalistic investigation followed