Media Coverage

Syria’s National Commission for Transitional Justice has begun developing a national victims registry to document serious human rights violations, preserve the rights of those affected and support efforts to establish the truth, ensure accountability, and provide reparations. The initiative seeks to...

Jordan has carried out air strikes in Syria in “retaliation” for last week’s deadly church attack, killing at least seven people, including three children, according to Syrian authorities. The attacks on Monday prompted Syria to close its main crossing with Jordan. The Jordanian Armed Forces said in...

Syrian authorities have arrested a suspect accused of involvement in the mass killing of civilians in the coastal city of Baniyas in 2013, according to state media. Intelligence officials apprehended Ali Kayali, also known as Mihrac Ural, “while he was attempting to flee across the border,” state...

Syria is advancing efforts on justice and accountability while strengthening cooperation with the International Commission of Inquiry and international organizations, Syria’s representative to the UN Human Rights Council Yasser al-Farhan said. Addressing a Human Rights Council meeting, Al-Farhan...

A Syrian court on Tuesday issued a death sentence to detainee Wassim al-Assad, a cousin of long-time ruler Bashar al-Assad who was himself sentenced to death in absentia a week ago. Judge Fakhr al-Din al-Aryan said Wassim al-Assad was convicted of multiple murders and "murder accompanied by torture...

A Dutch court has sentenced a Syrian man to 26 years in prison for crimes against humanity committed during his time working for the regime of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The court in The Hague handed down the sentence to Rafik A on Monday, having found that he tortured and raped...

A car bomb explosion near a Syrian Defense Ministry building in Damascus has killed at least one soldier and wounded more than 20 people, authorities say. In a statement carried by state media on Tuesday, the ministry said members of an army unit had discovered an improvised explosive device planted...

Syria has begun its first public trial of officials who served under longtime leader Bashar al-Assad, 15 years after the start of the civil war. Trial proceedings opened in Damascus on Sunday for Atef Najib, the former head of political security in southern Syria’s Deraa province. He is accused of...

A French court on Monday ruled that cement conglomerate Lafarge was guilty of paying the Islamic State (IS) group and other jihadists protection money to maintain its business in war-torn Syria. The company's former CEO Bruno Lafont was sentenced to six years in prison for financing "terrorism,”...

Syrian ⁠forces ⁠have taken control of the strategic al-Tanf military base near the border with Iraq and Jordan, the Syrian Defence Ministry has said, amid the withdrawal of a longstanding United States troop presence at the base. The ministry said in a statement on Thursday that Syrian Arab Army...