The ex-dictator's methods are highlighted by tons of documents that weren't burned in the fall of the regime. Mamdouh, a ...
NATO ally Turkey has emerged as the dominant state power in a new Syria, and is seeking to press its advantage by bombing and ...
The United Nations human rights chief has called for the lifting of Western sanctions imposed on Syria over its yearslong ...
Geopolitics abhors a power vacuum. One country’s loss is another’s gain, and the space left by Iran is being occupied, for ...
The new interim Syrian government says it will hunt down and punish senior security officials and others, but concern is ...
A packed concert hall in Damascus came alive this week with cheers as Wasfi Maasarani, a renowned singer and symbol of the ...
The people of Majdal Shams were scared to normalize or become citizens of Israel because of the Assad regime,” Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif told JNS. “Now the situation is different.” ...
In a wide-ranging interview, the political economist Helen Thompson discusses how the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria has ...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Rifaat al-Assad, an uncle of the ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad charged in Switzerland with war crimes over the bloody suppression of a revolt in 1982, has flown from ...
The 1982 Hama assault is often described as the model for Bashar al-Assad's later crackdown on the rebellion that began in 2011 and toppled him this month. When rebels seized Hama on Dec. 6 ...
The British wife of ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is deathly ill with leukemia — with doctors only giving her a 50% chance of survival, according to a report. “Asma is dying,” one ...
Russia scrambled to shoot down claims that exiled dictator Bashar al-Assad’s London-born wife Asma filed for divorce and wants to leave with her children to the UK. Turkish media dropped a ...