Mourners carried Mazen Al-Hamada's coffin through the streets of Damascus on Thursday/ Warning: This article contains graphic details of torture "We gave our blood and soul to the revolution," crowds chanted, as they carried Mazen Al-Hamada's coffin through the streets of Damascus, draped in the ...
In Aleppo's city centre, the huge billboard in the main square with a picture of President Bashar al-Assad, which used to be a feature in any Syrian town and village, was set on fire, then removed. The red, white and black national flags that decorated the lampposts were also taken away and ...
Syrians have come to the hospital in Damascus looking to find missing loved ones/ On a painted wall outside Damascus's Mustahed Hospital are photographs of the faces of dead men. A constantly changing crowd of people examine them, squinting against the low winter sun at men who look as if they ...
Travis Timmerman said he was arrested after entering the country on foot/ A US man, detained for months in a Syrian prison after entering the country on foot, has described being freed by hammer-wielding men as rebels overthrew the regime of Bashar al-Assad. The man - who later identified ...
Israeli troops have taken up positions on Mt Hermon, also known as Jabal al-Sheikh/ After launching hundreds of air strikes on Syrian military assets and seizing positions including the summit of a mountain with an uninterrupted sightline to the capital Damascus, Israel appears to be taking ...
Seven people were killed in an Israeli air strike in Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza/ An overnight Israeli air strike in northern Gaza has killed at least 19 people, medical officials and the Hamas-run Civil Defence agency say. Civil Defence spokesman Mahmoud Bassal told AFP news agency ...
Syrian rebel fighters have destroyed the tomb of late president Hafez al-Assad, father of ousted president Bashar, in the family's hometown. Videos verified by the BBC showed armed men chanting as they walked around the burning mausoleum in Qardaha, in the north-west of the coastal Latakia ...
Tawfiq Diam's wife and four children were killed in a 2018 chemical weapon attack/ Tawfiq Diam is emotional because it's the first time he's been able to speak freely about what happened to his family back in 2018, in Douma in the Eastern Ghouta suburb of Damascus. "If I'd spoken out before, ...
Bashir chaired a meeting with ministers from both the transitional and former governments/ The prime minister of Syria's new transitional government has said it is time for people to "enjoy stability and calm" after the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad. Mohammed al-Bashir, the former head ...
Khatib's death sparked protests in 2011 that led to Syria's civil war/ If the push to oust Bashar al-Assad was born anywhere, it was born in Deraa, a small city in Syria near the Jordanian border. Here, on 21 May 2011, the tortured and mutilated body of 13-year-old was delivered to his family ...
