Less than two weeks after Ahmad al-Sharaa ousted Bashar al-Assad in Syria, a U.S. State Department delegation arrived in ...

Another sign that Syria is moving in positive directions occurred during the Israel-Iran war. As Arab governments lambasted Israel’s air campaign, Syria refrained from issuing a single formal ...

Rebel fighters stand next to the burning gravesite of Syria's late president Hafez al-Assad at his mausoleum in the family's ancestral village of Qardaha in the western Latakia province on Dec. 11 ...

Hafez al-Assad's Syria: Forging a dynasty, at any price By Gilles Paris Published on February 7, 2025, at 4:00 am (Paris), updated on February 7, 2025, at 9:40 am. 7 min read Lire en français.

From Syria, an account of life under siege sets a path for the country’s future. ... Imprisoned for opposing Hafez al-Assad, she was tortured and detained from 1987 to 1991.

Punitive measures will remain in place for former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and human rights abusers, the White House ...

Premieres Tuesday, July 1, 2025 at 10:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Syria's uncertain future under Jihadist-turned-statesman ...

A panel of experts investigating and documenting crimes committed by the old regime share their experiences of working in the ...

Six months since the collapse of the Assad regime, the Russian military presence in Syria has remained entrenched in strategic locations such as the Hmeimim airbase and Tartous port on the coast, as ...

Months after dictator Bashar al-Assad fled Syria, the country’s Kurdish population faces continued uncertainty — and Turkish ...

The last French troops left in 1946, and a long period of turmoil followed. Syria’s military consolidated power in a 1970 coup led by Hafez Al Assad, an Alawite general and the father of Bashar Al ...

Israel, Russia, Turkey, and the United States have all deployed troops in Syria since 2011. How long will they stay in the ...