CNN's Clarissa Ward witnessed firsthand the incredible moment an incarcerated man at one of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's notorious prisons became a free man.

Inside Syria's notorious Sednaya prison, dubbed the "human slaughterhouse", Sky News saw the conditions that people were kept in until the fall of the Assad regime.

Since then, as the war intensified, the prison became, by all accounts, even more terrible. In 2021, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights calculated that as many as thirty thousand people had been ...

On Wednesday, at Sednaya, a political prison in Syria, hundreds of people prowled the grounds. It was the third day after an astonishing rebel offensive deposed Bashar al-Assad, who had ruled as a ...

I was born and raised in Damascus, Syria, where I lived for ten years of my life. My nationalism, as a member of the diaspora, is naturally f ...

The rapid fall of Syria’s autocratic ruler, Bashar al-Assad, this past weekend was one of the most consequential developments ...

Rebel fighters have set fire to the coffin of Bashar al-Assad’s father in a symbolic moment for Syria as it grapples with what shape the country will take next. Pictures and videos showed men circling ...

The commander of Syria's rebels who overthrew the regime of President Bashar Assad, Ahmad Sharaa, said Wednesday that those ...

When she heard the stunning news that rebels had brought an end to Syria's decades-old regime, Hayat al-Turki headed for a ...

Under Syria's president, a vast jail complex in the capital Damascus was known as a place where Syrians were disappeared without trial. Now it's crowded with with families searching for loved ones.

No other building in the war-torn country of Syria symbolizes the sheer horror of the al-Assad family regime more, its former ...

Kid scheduled to be executed the same day, walks out of Bashar Assad's ‘human slaughterhouse’ | Watch Syria news: A ...