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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

In Syria, many Kurds celebrated Nowruz in secret under Assad. With him gone, Kurdish people are throwing their biggest spring equinox party in decades. But some still fear for their safety.

At least 70 people were killed in Syria’s Latakia province as security forces clashed with loyalists of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad, in the bloodiest challenge to the new authorities since ...

In the final drama, two Alawite generals, Salah Jadid and Hafez al-Assad, battled for supremacy, a rivalry that ended when Assad prevailed in 1970. Hafez al-Assad, Damascus, 1973. Bashar al-Assad ...

But many Alawites said that they suffered like other Syrians under the rule of Assad and his father, Hafez al-Assad. Eyewitness reports and videos from the coastal region showed houses in several ...

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