Syrian authorities have maintained that the woman voluntarily left her family home and converted of her own free will. Her ...

Noor* has travelled to Damascus from Madaya, a small town in the mountains surrounding the Syrian capital. Her nails, painted black, are visibly bitten as she moves her hands while she speaks. Her ...

A 16-year-old girl left her home in northwest Syria last May to visit a shop and disappeared. Weeks later, an anonymous stranger phoned her distraught family and said that he had the teenager and ...