Oscar-nominated Syrian director Feras Fayyad on the fall of Bashar al-Assad, the dictator who ordered Fayyad's imprisonment ...

Study finds genetic imprints in three generations of Syrian refugees. Researchers urge caution in interpreting findings and ...

Most Alawites in Syria are poor farmers, coming from the western mountainous region on the Mediterranean. - The late Hafez al-Assad, Bashar's father, became the most powerful Alawite when he seized ...

We used to feel that the walls could hear us, and could write reports on us.Iman Al Alwani, Hama massacre ...

At least 70 people were killed in Syria’s Latakia province as security forces clashed with loyalists of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad, in the bloodiest challenge to the new authorities since ...

Just hours after Islamist rebels ousted longtime Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in December, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood at edge of the occupied Golan Heights and looked out over ...

Beirut: Journalists sometimes hear shocking statements—ones they lock away in their memory, fearing their repercussions. Some are too violent, too damaging, or too costly to repeat. Others risk swift ...

Al-Tatari was imprisoned under the rule of Syrian presidents Hafez al-Assad and later Bashar al-Assad. He had been detained since 1981. There are conflicting accounts for his imprisonment including ...

Syria’s new leadership faces allegations of mass killings, as Alawite communities endure field executions and mass ...

Given the Assad regime's long-standing policies targeting Kurdish identity during its 53-year rule under both Bashar and his father, Hafez al-Assad, the U.S.-backed SDF had been reluctant to ...

Weeks after sectarian revenge killings, a religious minority reckons with what happened and the possibility of a united Syria ...