December 8, 2024, marked a turning point in Syria’s civil war with the fall of Assad’s regime. Yet, for those who survived the torture of Saydnaya, the joy of freedom was bittersweet. As the war in ...

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 ...

Sky's Yalda Hakim enters Sednaya prison in Syria and describes the horrors inside.

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 ...

Sky's Yalda Hakim has been to see Sednaya prison, on the outskirts of Damascus and spoke to family who's loved one was killed there.

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 ...

The Post's Berlin bureau chief Loveday Morris traveled to Sednaya prison outside Damascus, Syria, on Dec. 10, as Syrians ...

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.