Government forces, government-backed ... committed serious abuses in Suwayda governorate, including abductions, unlawful killings and the burning of homes....

January 16, 2025 - In Turkish-occupied territories ... to arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment, sexual violence, and unfair military trials, all with impunity. SNA factions continued to violate civilians’ housing, land and property rights, including by forcefully seizing homes, lands, and businesses...

January 3, 2026 - Authorities arrested political and human rights activists, censored websites, detained bloggers, and imposed travel bans. Syria's multiple security agencies continue to detain people without arrest warrants. No political parties were licensed and emergency rule, imposed in 1963, remained in effect.

December 5, 2025 - Other reported violations and abuses include sexual violence, arbitrary detentions, destruction of homes, forced evictions, and restrictions on freedoms of expression and peaceful assembly.

April 28, 2026 - These include reports of significant numbers of killings, enforced disappearances, arbitrary detention, and deportation of detainees. During the five-day visit, our colleagues were also informed that three mass graves had been uncovered in ...

August 12, 2025 - Human rights organizations reported violent extremist groups opposed to the Assad regime detained, tortured, and harassed journalists and posed a serious threat to press and media freedoms.

January 3, 2025 - During the year, the SNHR documented at least 2,317 cases of arbitrary arrest, including 129 children and 87 women, by conflict parties. The regime was responsible for 1,063 of these arbitrary arrests, according to the SNHR.

May 10, 2026 - Unlawful attacks against civilians and civilian structures in Syria have also been made by the Syrian-Russian coalition forces and other parties, in particular the Russian–Syrian hospital bombing campaign, as well as attacks on schools and mosques. According to Amnesty International's 2017/8 report on Syria, "Parties to the armed conflict committed war crimes and other grave violations of international humanitarian law and human rights abuses with impunity."

February 13, 2024 - Many Syrians who had fled the war face gross human rights violations and abuses upon their return to Syria, according to a report by the UN Human Rights Office released today.

January 9, 2026 - Many of the detainees had been subjected to torture and other ill-treatment. Amnesty International is pressing the new government to build a framework that would strengthen human rights for all Syrians and to show its commitment to establishing truth, justice and reparations for the tens of thousands of disappeared persons.

The Federal Court of Justice (BGH) issued an international arrest warrant against Jamil Hassan, who until July 2019 was head of the Syrian Air Force Intelligence Service. In order to address the systematic and widespread human rights violations in Syria, further legal interventions must follow – against the Assad government, against transnational corporations, against the states that intervene militarily in the conflict, and against armed groups such as IS.

April 1, 2024 - As part of its mission to document human rights abuses, PHR has documented, as of March 2024, 604 attacks on hospitals and other health care facilities since the start of the conflict.

January 3, 2025 - For example, local media outlets reported in May that Mohammad Shilash was detained without charge and tortured in regime detention facilities until his family paid millions of Syrian pounds for his release, despite his qualifying for release under the April 30 amnesty. In September, the COI reported that women who inquired about the fate of their detained spouse or attempted to obtain a death certificate with relevant authorities were harassed and verbally abused. During the year, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights highlighted the “black market of forged and fake reports of detention and interrogation, further exacerbating families’ suffering.”

June 30, 2025 - Serious human rights abuses, including mass killings, largely of Alawites, in Syria’s coastal regions and targeted violence against the Druze community, raising fears about revenge attacks and sectarianism.

January 9, 2025 - That violence spiraled into a brutal civil war, devastating the country. In blatant violation of international law, Bashar al-Assad’s regime relentlessly targeted health care facilities and deployed chemical weapons against civilians.

Hundreds of thousands of civilians have been killed and even more have been forcibly disappeared or tortured. Flagrant attacks on communities, documented by civil society groups, have destroyed vital infrastructure and public services, including hospitals and over 1,200 schools.

December 9, 2024 - This included attacks with chemical weapons, barrel bombs, and other war crimes, as well as murder, torture, enforced disappearance and extermination that amount to crimes against humanity.

March 16, 2026 - Despite the collapse of the Assad government, sporadic fighting has continued since December 2024, as well as rights abuses, including torture and enforced disappearances. The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has documented ...

January 21, 2025 - Significant human rights issues included credible reports of: arbitrary or unlawful killings, including extrajudicial killings; enforced disappearance; torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment by the regime and other actors; harsh and life-threatening prison conditions; arbitrary arrest or detention; serious problems with the independence of the judiciary; political prisoners or detainees; transnational repression against individuals in another country; arbitrary or unlawful interference with privacy; punishment of family members for alleged offenses by a relative; seri