As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both overjoyed and anxious. Assad and his family are Alawite, an offshoot of Shia ...

Phil and I had spent the morning in the Bedfordshire town for a BBC Radio 4 documentary. Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly had ...

Sri Lanka's Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala announced the revival of investigations into the 2019 Easter Sunday terrorist attacks. Initiated under the new government, the probe examines ...

To uncover the uncomfortable truths that often become the first casualties in turbulent times, the duality of human ...

Some 35,000 Syrian refugees have left Turkey to return to their home country since the fall of long-time ruler Bashar ...

There was an outpouring of grief for Mr. Hamada in Syria and around the world. He’d become a symbol of resilience and courage ...

Picks this month include a Bob Dylan sleeper, a harrowing portrait of Syria, and Will Ferrell and Harper Steele’s road trip.

It's been almost three weeks since rebel factions toppled the Assad regime. Now the new government wants to get Syria back on the international radar. Part of that is making its position clear on ...

Syria’s new authorities launched an operation Thursday against militias aligned with ousted President Bashar al-Assad, according to state news agency SANA. The reports said the operation was ...

DAMASCUS: Syria's new leaders announced Tuesday (Dec 24) that they had reached an agreement with the country's rebel groups on their dissolution and integration under the defence ministry.

The first commercial flight in Syria since the toppling of longtime President Bashar al-Assad earlier this month has taken off from Damascus airport. The flight landed in Aleppo, in the country ...

AL-HAKEEM, Syria — The woman was clutching her infant, still in the dressing gown and pajamas she had been wearing a day earlier when fighters overran this village in Syria’s Latakia province ...