Syria Direct

Detainees’ families mark Assad’s fall: Joy incomplete without justice

Families of detainees killed under torture in regime prisons mark the first anniversary of Assad’s fall with mixed emotions, ...

One year after Assad’s fall, Syria is on a knife edge

ANALYSIS: After generations of brutal rule, Syria is free but the future is unclear amid sectarian conflict, reconstruction ...
Opinion

'The fall of Assad marked a still uncertain close to a cycle of uprisings and crackdowns that began in Tunisia 15 years ago'

COLUMN. The Syrian transition, underway for the past year, must avoid sliding back into the kind of brutal authoritarianism that defined the Assad era, warns Gilles Paris.

With Fireworks and Parades, Syrians Celebrate Anniversary of al-Assad’s Fall

Fireworks lit the sky and music blared on Monday in the center of Syria’s capital, Damascus, as tens of thousands of people ...
Al Jazeera

The fragile fight for justice in a post-Assad Syria

A year after al-Assad fell, Syria’s new leadership faces the danger of Syrians frustrated by justice delayed or denied.

A year after Assad's fall, families of missing detainees languish without answers

A spreadsheet of dead Sednaya prisoners seen by Reuters after Assad's fall included his name, Ali Mohsen al-Baridi, dating ...

Was al-Assad's top adviser assassinated before his downfall in Syria?

Assad's adviser Luna al-Shibl died in a suspected hit after Tehran's top general warned she was a spy. Recently leaked videos ...

Syrians celebrate 'renewed hope' one year after the fall of the Assad dictatorship

In Damascus, where a military parade took place, many Syrians celebrated on Monday the first anniversary of the end of 14 ...