STORY: When she heard that rebels had toppled Syria’s brutal decades-old regime, Hayat al-Turki went to search for her ...

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

As families desperately scoured the filthy cells of Syria's forbidding Sednaya prison on Monday for any sign of long-detained ...

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

Its history of torture and mass killings casts a long shadow, even as Syrians celebrate the downfall of a dynasty ...

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 ...

Amnesty International described it as a “human slaughterhouse,” where, other rights groups say, tens of thousands of people ...

The Sednaya prison, located near Damascus, is notorious for its brutal treatment of detainees — most of whom are political ...

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

Sham announced Sunday that they had liberated thousands of political prisoners after a dramatic 10-day military campaign that ...

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 ...

I was detained for 21 years. For 15 of those years, I was forcibly disappeared, with no contact with my family,’ Riyad Avlar ...