The regime set up by Hafez al-Assad after the coup d'état of November 13, 1970, had only one objective: Its own continuity, ...

France, like other EU countries, has expressed a desire to engage with Syria’s new administration and lift sanctions on the ...

Not only are the 2,000 troops there in harm's way, their presence may actual hinder diplomatic progress under the new ...

Most Gaza residents are the descendants of Palestinian refugees driven to the enclave in a 1948 war. They harbor a deep fear ...

A prominent media professor has been arrested and suspended for her alleged role in helping the Assad regime persecute ...

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

Turkey could set up two air force bases in Syria's central desert region of Badiyah, use Syrian airspace for military ...

Either maintaining Russia’s military bases in Syria or finding an alternative outpost in the Mediterranean will prove ...

Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa said his government aims to restore ties with the United States in the coming days ...

In Arabic, Assad means “lion,” although that wasn’t his real name. Hafez, Bashar’s father, had adopted it to look strong. Hasan was born in the northeastern Syrian city of Manbij, 18 years before the ...

Over 2,400 Tunisian nationals are believed to have joined extremist groups in Syria, and their potential return is a growing ...

Syria's interim president says the now departed Iranian forces were damaging to his country and also posed a threat to the ...