Yasmine al-Saleh has two occasions to celebrate this year: the Eid al-Adha holiday and her family’s return home after nine ...

From the first year of the conflict, this documentary looks at how the Syrian rebellion began, how Assad moved to crush it and how his regime originally came to power. Filmed inside government ...

The new Syrian government has agreed to give inspectors from the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog access to suspected former ...

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Hassan Kattan, a cinematographer and documentary director who worked on powerful wartime short “One Day in Aleppo,” was also both happy and scared. “The future of Syria is a difficult ...

There was almost no press freedom in Syria during Bashar al-Assad’s rule. Now he’s stepped down, will free press return to ...

In this episode, Kings and Generals summarizes the full timeline of the Syrian Civil War, from the 2011 Arab Spring to the regime's collapse in 2024. We explore the uprising, the rise of jihadist ...

The new documentary Death Without Mercy, directed by Oscar-nominated Syrian filmmaker Waad Al-Kateab, captures what happened when tranquility was shattered at 4:17 a.m. local time on February 6 ...

Photograph by National Geographic Documentary Films As the administrator of the Cave, Ballour was responsible for a staff of some 100 people in a town besieged by troops loyal to Syrian President ...