Choreographers and poets from the Middle East and North Africa feature in the 79th edition's lineup, but playwrights remain ...

On August 31, 2013, as French warplanes were en route to Syria to launch a joint operation with the US against the regime of Bashar al-Assad, which had used chemical weapons against its own people, ...

Israel has issued evacuation orders for Beirut suburbs before striking Dahiyeh’s neighbourhood, as the death toll in the besieged Gaza continues to climb.

The Islamic State (IS) group on Thursday, May 30, claimed its first attack on Syria's new government forces since the fall of longtime Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, two war monitors said.

The Syrian therapist who heals souls broken in Bashar al-Assad's prisons From her apartment in Damascus, Najwa Harba treats around 40 patients traumatized by their time in the jails of the former ...

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, weakened by sectarian violence, looks to rebuild ties with France The former jihadist, seeking to distance himself from his past, is set to meet Emmanuel Macron ...

OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP T he fall of Bashar al-Assad in December 2024 not only marked the collapse of one of the most brutal dictatorships in modern history.

More than 70 people were killed and dozens more wounded in Syria in fighting between government security forces and militants loyal to deposed ruler Bashar al-Assad, a war monitor said Friday ...

'The al-Assad saga' (4/4). The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the heir chose the status quo and consolidated his ...

Eleven years ago, this defector from the Syrian military police risked his life to provide the first official evidence of torture on an industrial scale in the jails of President Bashar Al-Assad.

A family photograph in an album found in Bashar al-Assad's Damascus residence, on December 11, 2024. In the center, his parents, on the right, his brother Bassel.

Toppling Bashar Assad does not mean that Syria is at peace. The 1951 Refugee Convention espouses the principle of non-refoulement — that refugees cannot be returned against their will to a war zone.