A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved in suppressing the protests that started the 2011 ...

Najib was the head of political security in Daraa in southern Syria, under Assad’s regime. Syria’s nationwide uprising was sparked by the arrest and torture of children in Daraa, whom, the Observatory ...

On March 16, 1941 – with European cities ablaze and Jews being herded into ghettos – The New York Times Magazine featured an illustrated story on Adolf Hitler’s retreat in the Berchtesgaden Alps.

The scars that disfigure Syria after 14 years of civil war are wider than its minefields. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of towns and villages across the country have been destroyed or abandoned in one ...