Those kidnapped included a retired teacher, an engineering student and a mechanic, all of them Alawite - the minority sect of ...

The ousted Assad dictatorship kept lists of millions of wanted people. Now, Syrians are openly asking whether they “have a ...

Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt has accused Israel of exploiting followers of his minority faith in Syria as part of a ...

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

But this strategy of detaining family members of rebels created a new problem for Syrian security forces: What to do with all ...

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 ...

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

The United States has handed Syria a list of conditions that it wants Damascus to fulfill in exchange for partial sanctions ...

Syrian central bank governor Maysaa Sabreen has tendered her resignation less than three months after she was appointed to ...

Shara, guarantees individual freedoms but gives Mr. al-Shara abundant power and keeps Islamic law as its legal foundation.

The White Helmets did not dare set foot near Damascus for years after dictator Bashar al-Assad branded the famed civic ...

WASHINGTON/BEIRUT - The United States has handed Syria a list of conditions that it wants Damascus to fulfill in exchange for ...