An entire generation of Syrians has never known freedom and so when it swept over them, last Sunday, there was shock, then joy, and a desperate hope that it might last. Damascus is a city nearly 5,000 ...

Ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s departure from the country was unplanned, according to a statement posted Monday on the Syrian Presidency Telegram account, purporting to be from Assad. The ...

Lara Eezouki, a member of the national elections committee in Damascus, noted that the new assembly includes all sects and groups and said it's "the first time in Syria’s history that the ballot box ...

Since the start of widespread protests in 2011, Bashar Assad’s name has been tied to numerous violations and international accusations. The Syrian Ministry of Justice, through the Seventh ...

In the wake of the Assad regime’s fall in Syria, the streets of Lebanon were alive with celebration. Church bells rang out as Lebanese Christians gathered en masse, uplifted by the seismic political ...

In one room saved from a fire, we got a glimpse into Assad's system of fear. The Stasi Museum in East Berlin is amazing, not least because it's the actual former headquarters of East Germany's secret ...

With the fall of the Assad regime in Syria and Hezbollah in Lebanon defeated and increasingly isolated, attention turns to the Houthis in Yemen. Perhaps the strongest remaining Iranian proxy force in ...

A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk outside a morgue in Damascus. Her head wrapped in a scarf, she rocked back and ...

(JTA) — The fall of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has opened up a sea of uncertainty about Syria’s future — and about the treasures of its past, including the remnants of its Jewish history. Well ...

The collapse of Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria reverberates far beyond the Levant, shaking the foundations of other autocratic regimes. Among these, Nicolás Maduro’s government in Venezuela faces a ...

A signed picture of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip has been found among the souvenirs in the packed "treasure room" of ousted Syrian leader Bashar al Assad. Rebel fighters discovered the photo ...