Oscar-nominated Syrian director Feras Fayyad on the fall of Bashar al-Assad, the dictator who ordered Fayyad's imprisonment ...

The one thing holding Syria together now is Ahmed al-Sharaa, who has taken on the near-impossible job of teaching his people ...

Here’s a look at ongoing civil war in Syria. Facts Bashar al-Assad ruled Syria as president from July 2000-December 2024. His father, Hafez al-Assad, ruled Syria from 1970-2000. The ongoing violence ...

Journalists sometimes hear shocking statements—ones they lock away in their memory, fearing their repercussions. Some are too ...

Sharaa, whose fighters led the offensive that toppled the Assad family dynasty in December, has said he will build an ...

After the 1973 war, former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad realized that reclaiming the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights ...

Syria’s new leadership faces allegations of mass killings, as Alawite communities endure field executions and mass ...

Assad’s regime in Syria in December 2024 felt almost unreal. “I thought the ending of my story was dying in exile,” she told ...

It was a development in the Syrian drama almost as unexpected as the stunningly swift fall of the Assad regime that had ...

Al-Tatari was imprisoned under the rule of Syrian presidents Hafez al-Assad and later Bashar al-Assad. He had been detained ...