According to a CNN investigation, Sayf Boulad Abu Bakr, who was recently appointed commander of Syria’s 76th Division, ...

A CNN investigation, which draws on interviews with witnesses, exclusive videos and images, gives searing new insight into ...

CNN investigates allegations of rape, torture and abuse under a commander now promoted to a top role in Syria’s new military.

But Syria’s new authorities have faced backlash, particularly from the Kurds, for appointing militia leaders complicit in serious human rights abuses, including Ahmad al-Hayes, better known as ...

Baghdad: Damascus has launched a security operation in eastern Syria near the Iraqi border in what sources described as a preemptive move, amid warnings that Iran could mobilize allied armed groups in ...

The European Union (EU) has announced strong new sanctions against three Syrian militia groups and two of their leaders. This move comes after deadly violence in March that killed more than 1,700 ...

The European Union sanctioned on Wednesday three Syrian militia groups and two of their leaders for serious human-rights abuses over their alleged involvement in deadly ethnic violence in March ...

The Human Rights Abuses Under Assad For more than two decades ... It was during this time that the Shabiha, or Syrian militia groups loyal to the Assad family, emerged and became a major arm ...

The European Union sanctioned on Wednesday three Syrian militia groups and two of their leaders for serious human-rights abuses over their alleged involvement in deadly ethnic violence in March.

Syria’s main Druse militias, who control a strategic swath ... In exchange for government concessions, including promises to investigate abuses committed during the clashes, they agreed to ...

Boulad is one of several commanders who, along with their militias, have been accused by the US and the United Nations of grave human rights abuses, and now occupy influential roles in Syria’s ...

The EU imposes sanctions on three Syrian militia groups and two of their leaders for serious human rights abuses over their alleged involvement in deadly ethnic violence in March, an official ...