After 54 years, the brutal Assad regime has fallen to almost unanimous rejoicing. But any attempt to rebuild Syria's shattered society will first have to heal divides entrenched by two generations ...

QARDAHA, Syria — On the walls of the palatial mausoleum built to house the remains of former Syrian President Hafez Assad, vandals have sprayed variations of the phrase, “Damn your soul ...

Jamil Hassan, referred to as "the butcher" by people who lived on his street, is among the senior regime figures who have ...

As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both ...

Iran may have lost its proxy in the House of Assad, but its other Hezbollah puppets in Lebanon and in Iraq will continue to destabilise Syria just as they have in Iraq, to prevent Sunni hegemony.

His community, Qaboun, was an anti-government center and many of its buildings were flattened under Assad’s administration. “Which is our house? Which is our alley? There is nothing visible ...

Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez, ruled Syria for more than half a century but how did one family achieve and maintain power?

QARDAHA, Syria (AP) — On the walls of the palatial mausoleum built to house the remains of former Syrian President Hafez Assad, vandals have sprayed variations of the phrase, “Damn your soul ...

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