2025

Syria’s mass graves haunt loved ones a year on from Assad, as hunt for clues finally starts

It has been a whole year since Bashar al Assad, who ruled Syria with an iron grip for decades, was ousted from power. According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights at...

Facing Alawite backlash, Syria’s new leaders take controversial steps to win loyalty

The Syrian Network for Human Rights says the committee’s power to grant amnesties and free detainees undermines transparency, accountability and an independent judiciary.

Syrians emptied Assad’s prisons. They’re filling up again, and abuse is rife

The Syrian Network for Human Rights started documenting abuses under Assad in 2011 and has continued to release monthly reports on arbitrary detentions. Over the course of 2025, the...

Syrian officials discuss demining efforts in Geneva with European partners

According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, at least 3,799 civilians have been...

SNHR: Millions of Syrians return home, but major challenges persist

More than 3 million Syrians, including refugees and internally displaced people, have returned to...

Justice for Tadamon

In a legal analysis, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR), an NGO, questioned the...

What the discovery of Assad-era chemical weapons means for Syria

According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, the group carried out five chemical...

A year after his fall, report documents al-Assad’s violations

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) issued a report on Monday, 8 December, updating the tally of violations committed by the former regime, on the...

À la Une: un an après la chute de Bachar el-Assad

selon les rapports compilés du Syrian Network for Human Rights. La majorité de ces crimes sont attribués aux nouvelles autorités de transition, et près...

Thousands of graphic photos reveal the fate of loved ones tortured, disappeared under Assad regime

The Syrian Network for Human Rights estimates that more than 150,000 people were arrested and "forcibly disappeared" by Assad's forces since the war began...

Photographs of more than 10,000 regime victims capture a campaign of torture and mass murder in haunting, meticulous detail.

The Syrian Network for Human Rights, a nongovernmental organization that tracks Syrian war casualties, estimates that the Assad regime disappeared more than 160,000 people,...