Amid the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War and talks with Israel, Hafez al-Assad's top priority was ...

Flashdrive' grippingly captures the enduring spirit of Syrians as they navigate the horrors of war, battling both Assad’s ...

A prison in Syria holds about 4,500 members of the Islamic State group who have been there for years without trial.

Men of various ages and nationalities sit silently in their cells in a Syrian prison. All are alleged members of the Islamic ...

Ahmed al-Sharaa has been named Syria’s transitional president after leading the rebel offensive that ousted Bashar al-Assad.

Syria enters a new phase with Ahmed al-Sharaa appointed as President. Tasked with overseeing a political transition, ...

The group had not expected to go much past Aleppo, let alone end the 53-year autocratic rule of the Assad dynasty 12 days later. Suddenly, members of the group found themselves in charge of a state.

A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved in suppressing the protests that started the 2011 ...

He was a relative unknown until a few weeks ago, but Ahmed al-Mansour has managed to develop a cult following in his native Egypt after Syrian rebels toppled the Assad dynasty. An Egyptian ...

For Russia, as for Iran, last month’s fall of the 54-year-old Assad dynasty in Syria was a major geo-strategic setback. Former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s sudden defeat threatened Russia’s ...

No longer. The reverse damascene expulsion has seen the Assads scurry to safety to Moscow. The beginning of the end of the Assad dynasty can be traced back to Hamas’s brutal attacks of 7 October 2023.