Mammoth concrete apartment buildings line the main motorway running west out of Damascus, relics of a Soviet-style economy ...

The regime’s collapse should also dispel at last the persistent myth that the Arab Spring was a mirage. The first wave of ...

Six months ago, leukemia was diagnosed in Asma al-Assad, the 49-year-old wife of ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. And ...

The Syrian soccer player Abdel Basset Al-Sarout became the poster child for the Syrian revolution with his iconic protest anthems. In death, he has become its saint. But he didn't do it alone.

In a series of posts on an X account attributed to her, Syria’s former first lady Asma al-Assad wished the Syrian people ...

The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the ...

Fared al-Madh'an, former forensic officer in Syria's military police, breaks his silence on smuggling thousands of photos exposing Assad regime atrocities A Syrian whistleblower known as “Caesar ...

When Bashar al-Assad was overthrown by Islamist rebels in Syria in December after 14 years of civil war, there were concerns as to what this might mean for the Christian community in the troubled ...

It will be Sharaa's first official visit abroad since he assumed power after leading a rebel campaign that ousted Bashar al-Assad in December. Sharaa, an Islamist who was once an affiliate of al Qaeda ...

DAMASCUS, Syria—The Syrian factions that toppled President Bashar Assad last month named an Islamist former rebel leader as the country’s interim president on Wednesday in a push to project a ...

Former congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard's controversial 2017 meeting with Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and past statements on Russia's invasion of Ukraine have drawn fresh scrutiny after President ...