Months after dictator Bashar al-Assad fled Syria, the country’s Kurdish population faces continued uncertainty — and Turkish ...

Assad’s leadership quickly descended into authoritarianism, marked by mass repression and a devastating civil war. This video ...

Wassim Assad, who had long appeared on US sanctions lists for supporting armed groups and financing the trade of Captagon, an ...

Photographer Seamus Murphy went to the West Bank in 2004 to shoot a movie. Two decades on, how have lives there changed?

Syrian authorities have arrested a cousin of former President Bashar Assad, who is under U.S. sanctions for his alleged role ...

Syria has revealed the line-up of its new interim government, which includes members of religious minorities and early veterans of the 2011 uprising against Bashar al-Assad. Syrian President Ahmed ...

While President Hafez al-Assad abandoned some of the more explicit socialist policies in 1970 and his son ... Economy Minister Basil Abdul Hanan told Reuters in January that they would begin ...

There is now a major shift to "a competitive free-market economy", Syria's new economy minister, 40-year-old former energy engineer Basil Abdel Hanan, told Reuters. ADVERTISEMENT Under transitional ...

Syria’s first post-Assad protests broke out on Dec. 25 after a video claiming to show the destruction of an Alawite shrine spread rapidly across Facebook. The video was quickly debunked as several ...

However, Basil Qas Nasrallah, who served as an advisor to Syria's Mufti Badr al-Din Hassoun for fifteen years - an unprecedented position for a Christian - offers a more optimistic perspective. While ...

Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, speaks with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting in Moscow, Russia, on July 24, 2024. Ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad says he had planned to ...