Following Bashar al-Assad’s downfall, WSJ travels to an abandoned prison in Damascus while families across Syria desperately search for missing relatives, and in the process makes a grim discovery.

The ruins of this abandoned prison camp allow visitors to get the sense of what life once was back then. Visitors can explore this abandoned building with the shells of housing units, shops ...

He led the Air Force Intelligence and oversaw a network of detention facilities including the notorious Mezzeh Prison ... around the world who have abandoned their homes in affluent areas of ...