Sky News sees bags of faeces, nooses, a torture chamber and an alleged "crushing machine" inside the facility, warned about for years by human rights groups as a symbol of the brutality of the Assad ...

It is not even Christmas yet: trees are still being decorated, turkeys are yet to be defrosted and Christmas puddings remain intact.

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.

Syrians searching for missing loved ones are scouring the country’s most notorious prison for information and anyone still ...

Mohammed Ismail al-Daher’s only crime was having the same name as a suspect wanted by the Palestine Branch, one of the most feared intelligence units in Assad’s entire security apparatus.

Syrian rebel leader Abu Mohammed al-Golani said he would hunt down anyone involved in the torture or killing of detainees ...

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 ...

Horrifying images have started to emerge from the so-called 'White Building' - also known as the execution block of Sednaya ...

Hayat al-Turki has searched the notorious Sednaya prison for four days, finding list of over 7,000 prisoners, wonders if ...