Less than two weeks after Ahmad al-Sharaa ousted Bashar al-Assad in Syria, a U.S. State Department delegation arrived in ...

A new documentary from Frontline explores the quest for stability in Syria in the months since opposition forces caused former President Bashar al-Assad’s government to fall. Ahmed al-Sharaa was the ...

Premieres Tuesday, July 1, 2025 at 10:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Syria's uncertain future under Jihadist-turned-statesman ...

In the documentary, Smith speaks with U.S. diplomats who met with al-Sharaa after he ousted Assad, and who express cautious optimism about his leadership: “Having worked for many four-star ...

Bashar al-Assad’s regime detained more than a million people during the Syrian war. Saydnaya was the regime’s most notorious prison. In a video drawn from the documentary ‘Syria’s Detainee ...

When President Bashar al-Assad fled Syria in December 2024, after a rebel offensive reached Damascus, his departure marked the end of more than 50 years of the Assad family’s rule and brought ...

Assad was toppled in an offensive led by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, whose commander, Ahmed al-Sharaa, is Syria’s new president. The biggest deal Turkey and Qatar have made in Syria so far was in May.

According to German prosecutors, Alaa Mousa abused and killed prisoners suspected to be enemies of then-Syrian President Bashar al-Assad while working as a doctor in military hospitals and prisons ...

Belarusian President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, Europe’s brutal last dictator, has been named 2021’s Person of the Year by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) in recognition of ...

Assad’s regime was toppled, Charlie Smart, a reporter at The New York Times, traveled to a mass burial site in Syria to ...