On March 9, 2013, members of Assad's military intelligence arrested Rania Al-Abbasi's husband, Abdul Rahman Yasin, in their home, before returning to loot all the gold and money, seize three cars, ...

Children's school uniforms hung on the door. Their academic workbooks lay on their desks. Toys covered in dust were still ...

Armed groups killed entire families, including women and children, during an outbreak of sectarian violence in Syria last ...

An NPR investigation finds that more than 350 Syrian children were secretly placed in orphanages across the capital, Damascus, when the Assad regime was in power. Now, some of them cannot be found.

Hundreds of people were killed in Syria over four days after violent clashes between the army and loyalists of the deposed ...

Children are feared to be among more than 1,000 people reportedly killed in fierce fighting over the weekend in Syria’s ...

For more than two years, a junior officer in the Syrian military, his sister and a friend risked their lives to collect evidence of the atrocities being committed by the regime. Their work changed the ...

The days-long conflict has been among Syria's deadliest in a decade. Nearly 1,000 civilians have been killed, including women and children, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

This past weekend’s sectarian violence was possibly among the bloodiest 72 hours in the modern history of Syria after 14 ...

Entire families including women and children were killed in Syria's coastal region as part of a series of sectarian killings ...

A monitoring group says 973 civilians have been killed in revenge attacks against the Alawite sect since Thursday.