A banner held up in the hall read “It is Syria the Great, not Syria the Assad”. One of Maasarani’s best known songs is Jabeenak ’Ali w Ma Bintal, which he first sang in 2012, addressing ...

Like many Syrians, I'd only ever known the country under the rule of Assad and his father Hafez, who had been in power from 1971 until 2000. Life under the Assads had meant more than 50 years of ...

Now their founder is in the new government and... With Assad gone and Syria's war over, the White Helmets have a new mission DAMASCUS, Syria — When a dozen firefighters showed up within minutes ...