As Syria breaks free from dictatorship, its artists, both in the diaspora and those returning, capture the struggle, hope, ...

Once Syria's most influential minority, Alawites struggle to move on from their association with a hated dictator.

FILE.- An opposition fighter steps on a broken bust of the late Syrian President Hafez Assad in Damascus, Syria, Sunday Dec. 8, 2024. Credit: AP/Hussein Malla The Baath party, whose aim was to ...

As preparations were being made to entomb former Syrian president Hafez al-Assad in a mausoleum nearby, a young Imam sat on the steps of the mosque and sighed, before confessing a dangerous ...

A rivalry developed between the Syrian branch under Assad and his late father, Hafez, and the one in Iraq under Saddam Hussein, who was removed from power by a U.S.-led invasion in 2003.