Languishing in a dungeon cell of Syria’s then-ruler Bashar Assad, an unknown prisoner scrawled a verse of Arabic poetry on ...

Often mysterious, the graffiti preserves fragments of what the anonymous inmates were thinking as they faced torture and ...

Syria's new leadership has seized abandoned military housing previously occupied by former high-ranking soldiers who fled following the ouster of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad. But questions ...

NATO ally Turkey has emerged as the dominant state power in a new Syria, and is seeking to press its advantage by bombing and ...

Geopolitics abhors a power vacuum. One country’s loss is another’s gain, and the space left by Iran is being occupied, for ...

Hundreds of Syrians came to Arizona to escape dictator Bashar al-Assad. After Assad's ouster, will Syria be home again?

Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad were allegedly communicating before rebels took over the Syrian government in December.

The United Nations human rights chief has called for the lifting of Western sanctions imposed on Syria over its yearslong ...

Syria's new central bank governor, Maysaa Sabreen, said she wants to boost the institution's independence over monetary ...

Iran is at a crossroads — either embrace “realpolitik” through practical, realistic negotiations with the West or “roll the ...

The rebel alliance that took power has vowed to prosecute senior figures from the ousted government, but accountability will ...

China never intervened military in Syria, but it did support the Assad regime in other ways. After Assad’s fall, China faces ...