Assad’s most-notorious death factory, the hangings had become routine. Once a month, around midnight, the guards at Saydnaya ...

The History That Syria’s New Leaders Will Need to Overcome 9 minute read A broken portrait of Bashar al-Assad is seen on on the ground at Mezzah Military Airport on Dec. 16, 2024, in Damascus.

Premieres Tuesday, July 1, 2025 at 10:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Syria's uncertain future under Jihadist-turned-statesman Ahmad al-Sharaa. After the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Correspondent Martin ...

The optimism about changes in Syria should be tempered by a look at what is in, and what's out, in the new regime's schoolbooks.

Syria's Jewish population has dramatically declined since the founding of Israel in 1948, and today only nine Jews remain in the country. Most are elderly, with the community expecting that no ...

Thousands of Syria’s Jews left in recent decades. But after Assad’s ouster and easing of sanctions, they can now reconnect ...

With the stunning change of leadership in Syria and the end of a 50-year reign of the Assad regime, the significance of religious history in Syria shouldn't be overlooked. Most Syrians are now ...