Officials in Syria's caretaker government were left with a state in ruins. Some fear they aren't moving fast enough to fix it ...

A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved in suppressing the protests that started the 2011 ...

Decades of authoritarian rule have left Syria’s justice system ill-equipped to handle complex human rights cases. Thousands ...

Northeast Syria, he said, is enduring a silent tragedy. The region is struggling to cope with the influx of internally ...

Noor Humair ...

The poet says that while censorship in a dictatorship is nothing new, the same in a democracy feels like entering a new totalitarianism ...

His detention comes after Syria’s newly inducted interim leader ... including Egypt and Tunisia. Najib was then head of the regime’s Political Security Branch in Deraa. The parents of the ...

The Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM ... This repression reflects a broader decline in Tunisia’s human rights landscape. Human Rights Watch’s 2024 report revealed a sharp ...

While some countries – Egypt and Tunisia – became democracies, albeit briefly, others, like Yemen, Libya and Syria, descended into violence. One of the most pressing questions when considering ...

While it’s unclear what exact political path Syria will take, the dilemmas the country faces are similar to the experiences of other Arab countries more than a decade ago. In the winter of 2010, an ...