As Syria turns to private investment to finance reconstruction, the absence of a rights-based framework risks reproducing patterns that took shape under the Assad regime.

Stabilising Syria means stabilising its economy. It urgently needs international support and a safer investment climate.

The British wife of toppled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has been revealed as a central figure in his murderous operation and at the heart of its decision-making

Two bombs exploded near a hotel ‌in Damascus where French President Emmanuel Macron had spent the night, but his office said he did not hear the explosions and he met Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa ...

Syria’s new People’s Assembly prepares for its first session, with lawmakers outlining legislative priorities, oversight powers and constitutional limits during

A Vienna court has convicted two former Syrian security officials, including the former intelligence chief in Raqqa, for offenses including torture and sexual assault against opponents of Bashar Assad...

It took Deema, 40 years old, some time to settle into the company car. She is in the final three months of her pregnancy. She groaned deeply, settling into the driver’s seat. Then she heard one of her...

British businesspeople and companies are looking to invest in vital sectors in Syria, a prospect discussed at the first conference […]

This publication was funded by the European Union, and in partnership with the Ceasefire Centre for Civilian Rights. The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of Syrians for…

The biographies of those sitting in the People’s Assembly show that it is neither monolithic nor strictly factional, but simply the revolution's memory, given a political afterlife

Confronting Our Darkest Chapters Is Essential to Moving Past Them

In-Depth: For more than a decade, Dr Rania al-Abbasi’s family symbolised Syria’s disappeared. Today, they embody the country’s struggle for justice after Assad

TRIAL OF The Coastal Incidents  Military Criminal Court – Aleppo, Syria   Trial Monitoring Summary #3 – Assad’s Affiliates   Hearing Date: March 15, 2026  CAUTION: Some testimony may include graph...

Harried by government security campaigns, IS appears unable to regain territorial control in Syria, instead working to maintain visibility through limited operations while betting on the failure of th...

Translations:English (UK)Русский (Россия)(Revised edition, May 2017) One subject that keeps coming up in ongoing debates about Sarin chemical attack in Syria from 2013 to date is the nature, role, and...

Translations:English (UK)Русский (Россия)After 6 years of chemical attacks in Syria, many details have been gathered about the nature of chemical weapon use in Syria, including the munitions and chemi...

Last week in Damascus, the trial of Wassim Assad kicked off on Wednesday June 24, just after a third hearing in the Atef Najib case, and just before the opening of another trial against the former Gra...

Only a few meters separate Mahmoud Yahya from his apartment in Darayya, in Rural Damascus Governorate, southwestern Syria, but reaching […]

The White House has soured on Israel’s war with Hezbollah in Lebanon. U.S. President Donald Trump has shocked many in the region by pushing an alternative: Let Syria fight the Iran-backed militant gro...

اعتقلت السلطات السورية الناشط رائد حمدو، مساء أمس الأربعاء، 24 حزيران، بموجب دعوى قضائية على خلفية اتهاماته المتكررة للمسؤولين في منطقة القطيفة في ريف انتقاده المتكرر يقود إلى اعتقال الناشط رائد حمدو ...

Home secretary speeds up major part of bill governing asylum and refugees as new prime minister set to take over

In a strong address to the UN Security Council, Syrian ambassador Ibrahim Olabi rhetorically questioned whether Israel's continued military presence in Syria suggested it had "preferred the status quo...

1. Background The project, commonly known as the “Arab Belt,” is one of the most prominent examples of “demographic engineering” carried out in Syria before 2011. Although the project’s practical…

The living and the dead are coming home to Afrin as displaced families return with the remains of their loved ones, fulfilling a long-held wish to lay them to rest in their native soil.

A look at the ICIBI's inspection of asylum casework

Exclusive: Labour peer who fled Nazis as a child says Andy Burnham has chance to ‘correct mistakes’ on refugees

On the "withdrawal" of Assad-era books from libraries and the perplexing censor at the borders.

The Fourth Criminal Court at the Palace of Justice in Damascus held the first session in the trial of Syria’s […]

Israeli forces detained a civilian in Quneitra and bulldozed land along the buffer zone amid continued incursions, searches, and arrests in southern Syria.