(CNN) — Back at the turn of the 21st century, Qatar was a country with few cultural attractions to keep visitors and residents entertained. Yet the Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani Museum — known as ...

Several European countries have suspended processing asylum requests from Syrian nationals following the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria. View on euronews ...

Men of various ages and nationalities sit silently in their cells, a small window in the metal doors their only opening to ...

In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik on July 25, 2024, Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad meets with Russian president at the Kremlin in Moscow on July 24 ...

no longer traded in secret after iron-fisted ruler Bashar al-Assad’s ouster. “If I had asked about a (certain) book just two months ago, I could have disappeared or ended up in prison,” said ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A delegation of Russian officials arrived in Damascus on Tuesday for the first such visit to Syria since the fall of former President Bashar Assad. Assad, an ally of ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — (AP) — The charred remains of at least 26 victims of the Bashar Assad ... fled the nearby Al-Assali neighborhood when the fighting escalated and the Assad government imposed ...

The Discovery of Brutal Mass Graves in Syria Reveals Assad's Legacy of Horror DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The charred remains of at least 26 victims of the Bashar ... Abed al-Rahman Mawwas, a member ...

There is also fear around the region, with the power vacuum left by the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria and a decimated Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, that Iraq may be next to fall.

Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on radical Islamic theology now sit openly in Damascus bookstores, no longer traded in secret after iron-fisted ruler Bashar al-Assad’s ouster.