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The "Detainees and Disappeared" exhibition in the Syrian capital, Damascus

Art exhibit on Syrian prisons helps preserve the pain of a nation

The 'Detainees and the Disappeared' installation in Damascus enshrines harrowing stories of individual imprisonment into a collective archive to remind future generations of their pain and sacrifice

Hasnaa Aadra 13 June 2025
An Iranian couple walk past mural paintings depicting scenes from the torture of Iraqi prisoners by US soldiers at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, on a major highway in the Iranian capital Tehran on June 1, 2004. AFP

From Abu Ghraib to Sde Teiman: rogue acts or systemic policy?

Can torture in US and Israeli-run prisons be chalked up to a few 'bad apples', as some officials claim? Studies have shown some instances of abuse were not only tolerated but tacitly endorsed.

Nour Bader 22 May 2025
ملصق فيلم "أثر الأشباح".

Victims become hunters in new film about torture in Syrian prisons

'Ghost Trail' is a timely French thriller about Assad-era atrocities, revealing what went on in the regime's darkest corners and how justice can be done by those determined enough to find the culprits

Areej Jamal 03 January 2025
A woman inspects the cells of the famous Sednaya prison north of Damascus after the fall of the Assad regime.
 AP/Hussein Malla

Blood-curdling tales emerge from Assad's torture dungeons

Unravelling the horrors perpetrated in the darkest corners of Syria's prisons is chilling, nauseating, and crucial to understanding how this infernal machinery came into being—and continued operating

Samer Abou Hawwach 13 December 2024
Khalil spent two years and three months in Assad prisons, he was released due to pressures by international organizations.

Assad Regime, Opposition Accused of Exploiting Detainees' Agenda

The Assad regime’s security authorities have inflicted large-scale torture against detainees who were arrested during the popular protests that took place in mid-March 2011. The many international…

Jiwan Soz 08 July 2022
 A number of Syrians gather in front of a Frankfurt Court where the trial of Syrian doctor Alaa M. over torture charges is being held. (Supplied)

Syrian Doctor’s Germany Trial, A Message to Intl Community

*Warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of violence and torture. German authorities are prosecuting a Syrian doctor accused of committing crimes against humanity during his…

Jiwan Soz 04 February 2022
Evin Prison.

Evin Prison: Mullah’s Crime Scene

Hassan Zarif Nazarian may not be disturbed as much as other detainees by the scenes of violence practiced in the video footage leaked from the notorious Evin prison in Tehran. Being held in the…

Rowshan Qassim - Erbil 10 September 2021
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Saudi Arabia's red line in Yemen explained

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Overcoming Yemen's fragmentation requires more support for the Riyadh-led path—one that rejects secession, all militias and institutionalises the state

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5 unanswered questions about Trump’s Venezuela plan

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Maduro's exit doesn't mean the end of his government

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Buses wait to enter the Sheikh Maqsoud neighbourhood to evacuate US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) force fighters from two districts of the city of Aleppo, northern Syria, on 9 January 2026. Bakr ALkasem / AFP
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Clashes in Aleppo may be the creaking before the earthquake

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If fighting spreads beyond the predominantly Kurdish neighbourhoods of Ashrafieh and Sheikh Maqsoud and beyond Aleppo, there is a real risk that Syria could be dragged into a new civil war

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Putin foreshadowed the Ukraine war in 2008 meeting with Bush

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Recently declassified meeting minutes between the two leaders show how Washington was well aware of Moscow's grievances over NATO expansion, but went ahead anyway

Samer Elias

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