Damascus: Returning Home after Fourteen Years in Exile: Reflections on Justice, Memory, and the Future of Syria
Fadel Abdulghany For fourteen years, we have worked in secrecy and exile. Our team members risked their lives daily, working...
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The Trial of Syrian Doctor Alaa M. in Frankfurt: International Justice with a Foundational Impact on Syria’s Future
Introduction: The conviction of Syrian physician Alaa M. by the Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt is more than just an...
Integrating Tracks: Why it is better for the Commission for Missing Persons to be under the umbrella of the Truth Commission within the Transitional Justice Commission in Syria
The special nature of the missing persons file in the Syrian conflict The issue of enforced disappearance in Syria is...
Challenges and Impacts of Reintegrating Armed Groups in Post-Transition Syria
Introduction As the popular uprising in Syria, which first started in March 2011 as peaceful protests, devolved into an internal...
US Strategic Interests in Post-Assad Syria: Balancing Sanctions Relief with Regional Security
The recent overthrow of the Assad regime in Syria has created a geopolitical inflection point that presents both significant opportunities...
As a Syrian rights monitor, an independent coastal investigation is needed after sectarian scare
Between March 6 and 10, Syria was plunged into darkness as the Syrian coastal cities of Latakia, Tartous, and Hama...
I’ve monitored Syria since 2011. The Aleppo advance scares Assad
Over the weekend, Syria's kaleidoscope of conflict threw up another curveball. For the first time in a long time, Syrians...
FIGHTING 13 YEARS OF IMPUNITY
This report is endorsed by Fadel Abdulghany, executive director of the Syrian Network for Human Rights. To view the report...
In Assad’s Syria, arbitrary detention is a codeword for torture
Bashar al-Assad's Syria uses arbitrary detention as a systematic policy to silence dissent from Syrians brave enough to call for...
HTS cracks down on Idlib demonstrations as protest movement persists
Abdul Qader al-Hakim, a member of the Islamist faction Jaish al-Ahrar, had been detained ten months earlier by HTS. Following...