A scholar of religious minorities and the Middle East explains the historical persecution and marginalization of the Alawite ...

After over a decade in exile, many Syrians living abroad are contemplating what was once unthinkable: going home. But what ...

It was exactly a week after the Assad regime fell in Syria last December, and Damascus was euphoric. My colleague and I came across a bar in the center of the city called Sugar Man.

Months after President Bashar al-Assad’s regime was toppled, Charlie Smart, a reporter at The New York Times, traveled to a mass burial site in Syria to understand how the Assad regime hid the ...

A cemetery near Damascus was transformed into an industrial-scale mass grave for Syrians who opposed President Bashar al-Assad.

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... President Donald Trump met earlier this month with Ahmed al-Sharaa, the de-facto leader of Syria, and signaled that he’s open to ...

As his enemies closed in on Damascus, Bashar al-Assad, who ruled over Syria with an iron fist for 24 years, used a private jet to spirit away cash, valuables and confidential documents mapping the ...

Former rebels now controlling Syria name an interim president and throw out the constitution adopted under Assad, saying a new one will be drafted soon.

Trump may believe that Syria is “not our fight,” but the competition with China is very much ours and will undoubtedly be a focus of his administration.

Now that the Assad regime in Syria has fallen, the full scale of that government’s production and distribution of illicit drugs is coming to light. Leila Molana-Allen reports from the drug ...

The collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria has exposed the fragility of other autocratic regimes, such as Nicolás Maduro’s government in Venezuela, which relies on external suppo… ...

Inside the final days of the Assad regime As rebels advanced toward the Syrian capital of Damascus in early December, the staff in the hilltop Presidential Palace prepared for a speech they hoped ...