Reporters Without Borders wrote to UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon in advance of his visit to Syria on 24-25 April, asking him to intercede with President Bashar Al-Assad on behalf of writer and journalist Michel Kilo, lawyer Anwar al-Bunni and Communist Party member Mahmud Issa, who have been imprisoned for nearly a year.
Several detainees named in the June 2005 appeal were subsequently freed. Human Rights Watch reported that Ali al-Abdullah and Muhammad…
Syria formally ended its state of emergency on 21 April 2011, nearly six years after the Baath congress recommended revising…
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression submitted a report to…
UN Deputy Special Envoy Claudio Cordone called for more accountable institutions and wider participation in Syria’s transition at a Security…
On 21 October 2025, the World Bank published an assessment of reconstruction costs for Syria’s conflict-damaged physical assets. The assessment…
On 28 March 2002, the Arab League summit in Beirut adopted the Arab Peace Initiative, setting out a proposed comprehensive…
