But as a new government takes shape in Damascus, Syrians and foreign observers alike worry about how inclusive, ...

Amid an outcry for justice and accountability and threats online, a once-dominant group is feeling deep anxiety after the ...

The regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fell after over 13 years of civil ... Chemical weapons falling into the wrong hands, particularly ISIS or other terrorist groups, would be a worst ...

Supporting Assad, himself an Alawite, was a matter not of loyalty or politics for this community, the regime insisted, but of ...

Syria’s embassy in Lebanon has suspended consular services a day after two relatives of deposed Syrian President Bashar Assad ...

Amid an economic downturn and growing hardships for many Egyptians, Sisi has opted for a strategy reliant on fear - ...

The rebels, which operate under the military command of the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group (HTS), moved into the capital ...

People in the Jaramana suburb of Damascus always thought something strange was happening at the nearby state security facility. Walled off and heavily guarded, the government compound was off limits ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad photographed in 2018 [File ... rockets to keep them from falling into the hands of the opposition fighters.

Syria’s new rulers say they will spare conscripts of Bashar al-Assad and pursue those who oversaw his regime’s abuses.

Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez, ruled Syria for more than half a century but how did one family achieve and maintain ...