Languishing in a dungeon cell of Syria’s then-ruler Bashar Assad, an unknown prisoner scrawled a verse of Arabic poetry on ...

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

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

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

QARDAHA, Syria (AP) — On the walls of the palatial mausoleum built to house the remains of former Syrian President Hafez Assad ... while working jobs on the side to cover their own expenses.

With the collapse of the Assad regime in Syria, it’s time for America to show up for them. Reinstating vigorous American support to the Kurds of Syria and Iraq wouldn’t require more American ...

The "positive side" for Israel, he added, was that "Bashar Assad was a critical link between ... Weakening Hezbollah, Iran The general view in Israel is that the advances by al-Golani's Hayat ...

During Assad's rule, Qasyun was off limits to the people of Damascus because it was an ideal location for snipers -- the great view includes the presidential palaces and other government buildings.

A man in fatigues walked around with a poster of ousted president Bashar al-Assad’s face on a stick ... their abandoned weapons littering the side of the road. “I parked on the right side ...

The Assad regime, though backed by Hezbollah and Iran, nearly fell, twice, before Russia intervened decisively on its side in 2015. Until recently, it seemed Assad had won, restricting the rebels ...