In Syria, many Kurds celebrated Nowruz in secret under Assad. With him gone, Kurdish people are throwing their biggest spring equinox party in decades. But some still fear for their safety.

The one thing holding Syria together now is Ahmed al-Sharaa, who has taken on the near-impossible job of teaching his people ...

The ousted Assad dictatorship kept lists of millions of wanted people. Now, Syrians are openly asking whether they “have a ...

The Taliban on Thursday freed an American citizen detained in Afghanistan for over two years following direct talks between U ...

The cries for revenge reached fever pitch on March 6. Dozens of messages posted by various armed factions on social media, ...

But many Alawites said that they suffered like other Syrians under the rule of Assad and his father, Hafez al-Assad ... news developments in the Middle East, including the war in Gaza, Lebanon ...

Take the example of Syria, where President Hafez Assad came to power after a successful military coup in 1971. The country had experienced more than a dozen coup attempts since 1946. The biggest ...

Their influence in national politics heightened around the 1960s and ’70s, when Alawite leader Hafez al ... in the Middle East and North Africa faced popular uprisings in what was dubbed the “Arab ...

But many Alawites said that they suffered like other Syrians under the rule of Assad and his father, Hafez al-Assad. Eyewitness reports and videos from the coastal region showed houses in several ...

Syria's new caretaker government announced the end of a days-long military operation against fighters loyal to overthrown president Bashar al-Assad on Monday, marking the worst fighting since the ...

DUBAI -A Syrian military operation against loyalists of ousted former President Bashar al-Assad has been completed, the defence ministry said on Monday. Clashes between Assad loyalists and the ...