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

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 ...

The city can finally mourn the tens of thousands of victims of Hafez al-Assad and the massacre he ordered 43 years ago. A child in Hama's city centre, where the Baath party government killed tens ...

Alawites, a Shia sect, ruled Syria for decades under the Assads. Now, after Bashar al-Assad's fall, they face violence as ...

But many Alawites said that they suffered like other Syrians under the rule of Assad and his father, Hafez al-Assad.

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

Violence is flaring across parts of western Syria, as forces of the self-styled Syrian transitional government have clashed ...

Syria’s security forces arrested a former intelligence chief Thursday who is accused of carrying out hundreds of assassinations under ex-regime leader Hafez al-Assad, the Syrian news agency SANA ...

"He is accused of hundreds of assassinations during the era of the criminal Hafez al-Assad," Bashar al-Assad's father and predecessor. Huweija, who headed air force intelligence from 1987 to 2002 ...