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 ...

Syria’s new security forces have deployed in tanks in the city of Homs to search for militia members and former soldiers ...

Protesters in Syria have held a sit-in demanding justice for four activists who were forcibly disappeared in 2013 and whose ...

Syria’s minority Alawite community is gripped by terror as reports spread of killings and disappearances under the country’s new Islamist rulers.

There are no lost causes. Polio. Inflation. A looming trade war. There are no gained causes, either.

In Deraa, schools reopened their doors just one week after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. Teachers and students are discovering ...

Iran's supreme leader says young Syrians will resist the new government emerging after the overthrow of President Bashar ...

QARDAHA, Syria — On the walls of the palatial mausoleum built to house the remains of former Syrian President Hafez Assad, ...

On the walls of the palatial mausoleum built to house the remains of former Syrian President Hafez Assad, vandals had sprayed ... performing ‘last Beatles song’ live ...

In that respect, the recent spate of news commentary has shown strikingly little curiosity about what preceded Hafez al-Assad and precipitated his rise to supreme power in Syria. Ottoman imperial ...

Under Hafez Assad – father of the ousted President Bashar Assad – who ruled Syria between 1971 and 2000, Alawites came to occupy key positions in the military and government. Concentrated ...