While there is no acceptable alternative to building a democratic Syria, the path will be fraught with many challenges.

If you have a mental map of the Middle East, rip it up. The overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria by a coalition of ...

Israeli airstrikes in northern and central Gaza killed at least 33 people overnight, Palestinian medical officials said ...

The de facto U.S. embassy in Taiwan said on Thursday that Chinese military activity in the region is currently elevated but ...

Assad's regime in Syria now in decline, the future of his vast drug empire, particularly the Captagon trade, remains ...

The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved resolutions Wednesday demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and ...

The jihadists' lightning takeover of Syria was followed by the IAF's vital lightning destruction of Assad's military infrastructure. Now Iran may think it has only one option left The post Israel ...

Assad’s government has lost the support of its people, and, therefore, "fell faster than expected," Syria’s new transitional Prime Minister Mohammed al-Bashir said ...

Syrian armed opposition leader Ahmed al-Sharaa said he is working to "dissolve the security forces of the previous regime and close the notorious prisons" ...

Since then, as the war intensified, the prison became, by all accounts, even more terrible. In 2021, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights calculated that as many as thirty thousand people had been ...

On Wednesday, at Sednaya, a political prison in Syria, hundreds of people prowled the grounds. It was the third day after an astonishing rebel offensive deposed Bashar al-Assad, who had ruled as a ...

Syria's new leaders vowed to create unity, but also hold to account the people who facilitated a half-century of Assad rule. Those calls for revenge added to the unease of many Syrian minorities, ...