Often mysterious, the graffiti preserves fragments of what the anonymous inmates were thinking as they faced torture and death.

While the fall of the Assad dynasty represents an epochal turning point for Syrians, the future remains in all senses ...

Geopolitics abhors a power vacuum. One country’s loss is another’s gain, and the space left by Iran is being occupied, for ...

The dictator Bashar al-Assad, who used barbaric force to crush ... Washington had considered intervening on the side of the insurgents, but mostly stayed on the sidelines. Since 2014, U.S. troops ...

Now that the Assad regime in Syria has fallen, the full scale of that government's production and distribution of illicit drugs is coming to light. Leila Molana-Allen reports from the drug ...

By Raja Abdulrahim Photographs by Ivor Prickett Reporting from al-Qardaha, Syria The walls of the mausoleum for late President Hafez al-Assad are scrawled with graffiti now — things that Syrians ...