The fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad has set free activists and dissidents held in the country's notorious prisons. The stories emerging from behind the doors of these prisons reveal how brutal life was under the regime.

After five decades under a regime that kept many in fear and poverty, families flooded back from Lebanon, eager to start the slow process of healing.

As a new government is set to form in Syria following a sudden coup earlier this week, the United States’ response to the political upheaval appears uncertain. Rebel groups unexpectedly overthrew Syria’s longtime leader,

Syria's former president Bashar al-Assad fled the country after a lightning offensive spearheaded by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group and its allies, ending five decades of rule by his clan.