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

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

The European Union imposed on Monday an asset freeze and a ban on travel to the EU on five people linked with toppled Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad for supporting crimes against humanity ...

After decades of dictatorship and 13 years of civil war, can Syria put itself back together? Our journalists traveled the length of the country to explore its hopes and its challenges.

A cousin of the ousted president Bashar al-Assad, Wassim had long operated in the shadows of power, leveraging his family name not merely as a shield but as a license to operate with near-total ...

Syrian authorities have arrested a cousin of former President Bashar Assad, who is under U.S. sanctions for his alleged role in drug trafficking and support to forces loyal to the ousted ...