Amid the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War and talks with Israel, Hafez al-Assad's top priority was ...

On a street corner in the old town of Damascus, rugged men with rifles stare sharply at passers-by. Despite their appearance, ...

Many Kurdish families were among the Syrians who visited the Tadamun area of Damascus after the fall of the regime of Bashar ...

Hayan Hadid was 18 when soldiers arrested him in his pyjamas and took him for execution in Syria's Hama in 1982, during one ...

Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on radical Islamic theology now sit openly in Damascus bookstores, no ...

Sharaa, also known by the nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Julani, is the leader of the Hayat Tahrir-al-Sham, the rebel group ...