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.

Many are believed to have been buried in mass graves after being tortured in Syria's jails during a war that has killed more than half a million people.

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.

Bashar al Assad's regime fell during a rapid rebel advance over a week ago.

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 ...

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

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.

SANA, the state news agency, said a mass grave containing the bodies of Syrian security forces was found in Qardaha. Meanwhile, in Baniyas, Ali said some of his relatives were also found in mass ...

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 ...

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".

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 ...