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 ...

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.

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

The killings occurred in the heartland of Syria’s Alawite minority, escalating after a nascent insurgency formed against the ...

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.

Landmines and unexploded ordnance in Syria have killed or injured at least 188 children since president Bashar Al Assad's ...