Cartoon faces, a joint of hashish ... The graffiti stand as evidence of the atrocities committed in Assad's prisons, providing a sobering reminder of the human cost of Syria's conflict.

As you walk through the cold, dark cells of Assad's prisons, the graffiti on the walls cry out. They plead to God and yearn for loved ones. Often mysterious, they preserve fragments of what anonymous ...

A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk outside a morgue in Damascus. Her head wrapped in a scarf, she rocked back ...