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

The Trump administration's May 2025 announcement in Riyadh, and subsequent executive order in June, lifting all sanctions on ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...