Comics had already been trying to foster stand-up in Syria before Bashar al-Assad’s fall. Now, they are telling jokes in a ...

Nearly three months after Assad fled, much of Syria is suspended between relief at the dictatorship’s demise and anxiety over ...

When new rulers with jihadi roots took power in Damascus, artists, singers and dancers held their breath. They can relax, the ...

More than 1,000 Syrians died in detention at a military airport on the outskirts of Damascus, killed by execution, torture or ...

Although the conference was called to chart the country’s future, the Kurdish-led militia that controls much of Syria’s ...

The toppling of Bashar al-Assad in Syria shattered the illusion that stability in the Middle East can be sustained through ...

Two prisoners who spent years inside Syria's deadliest prison are now sharing the horrors they endured at Sednaya military ...

Syria's new President Ahmed al-Sharaa met China's ambassador to Damascus in the first public engagement between the two ...

In a series of posts on an X account attributed to her, Syria’s former first lady Asma al-Assad wished the Syrian people ...

While Syrians around the world are celebrating the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, they are still cautious about what comes ...

Their routines included standard comedy fare — religion, sex and the pressure to get married — but the biggest punchline of ...

The city can finally mourn the tens of thousands of victims of Hafez al-Assad and the massacre he ordered 43 years ago.