The Latest Breaking News from Damascus

In the corridors of Damascus's main hospitals, thousands of families have gathered for the foreboding mission of trying to find the bodies of loved ones captured years ago by the Syrian authorities.

On the high rocky plateau, the fall of Bashar al-Assad has sown complicated and contradictory emotions

France joins calls for Israeli withdrawal, arguing it is in violation of the 1974 disengagement deal

After years of silence, I can finally write about Syria again

SPECIAL DISPATCH: From Assad’s slaughterhouse jail to the hospital morgue piled up with mutilated bodies, desperate Syrians search for family members disappeared under a despot’s brutal regime, reports Bel Trew

Just a few weeks ago the name Ahmed al-Sharaa, 42, would barely have flickered an eyebrow beyond a narrow neighbourhood of northern Syria and Iraq. Better known under his nomme de guerre Abu Mohammed al-Jolani he may now be a candidate for personality of the year, an icon on the…

Israel plans to create ‘sterile defensive zone’ inside southern border, and Turkey bombs Kurdish targets in north Syria

Mazen al-Hamada had escaped to tell the world about regime’s torture before returning to Damascus

Syrians lived in terror for decades of what went on behind the concrete walls of Damascus's security compound.