Six months after the fall of Syria’s Assad regime, mass burial sites of the war’s victims are ... Children play among bones as Syria faces ‘enormous challenge’ of what to do about mass graves.

The wartime mass graves and torture devices are only the most glaring evidence of abuses overseen by Mr. al-Assad and his father, Hafez. Nearly every Syrian, in some sense, has been wronged by the ...

Determining the fate of those who went missing during Syria’s civil war will be a massive task likely to take years, the president of the International Committee for the Red Cross said.

Determining the fate of those who went missing during Syria's civil war will be a massive task likely to take years, the president of the International Committee for the Red Cross said."Identifying ...

THIS VIDEO CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGESFor three days in March, Syrian Alawites were killed by the hundreds.We knew we needed to ...

EDITORIAL. The new Syrian authorities will be judged on their determination to respect fundamental rights and minorities, but also on their ability to ensure that justice is done for the mass ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Stephen Rapp, a former U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues, on his trip to Syria to help preserve evidence from mass graves.

Syria's new government has formed a committee to investigate reported mass revenge killings of a minority group - after the United Nations human rights chief called for "swift actions".

People gather for a mass demonstration in Qamishli, Syria, on March 11 to protest a recent wave of violence targeting Syria’s Alawite minority. Delil Souleiman / AFP - Getty Images file March 23 ...