The one thing holding Syria together now is Ahmed al-Sharaa, who has taken on the near-impossible job of teaching his people ...

Oscar-nominated Syrian director Feras Fayyad on the fall of Bashar al-Assad, the dictator who ordered Fayyad's imprisonment ...

The late Hafez al-Assad, Bashar's father, became the most powerful Alawite ... In March 2011, demonstrations against Assad's ...

Syria’s new leadership faces allegations of mass killings, as Alawite communities endure field executions and mass ...

Just hours after Islamist rebels ousted longtime Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in December, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...

After the 1973 war, former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad realized that reclaiming the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights ...

Do you tie an easing or suspension of sanctions to greater pluralism in Syria, to more power sharing ... In many ways, he's more similar to Hafez al-Assad, the founder of the Assad dynasty, than he is ...

Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa has announced a new constitution for Syria, and promised democratic elections in five years.

Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.

The late Hafez al-Assad, Bashar's father ... In March 2011, demonstrations against Assad's rule swept across Syria, demanding greater freedoms and end to corruption. After the government cracked ...

For half a century, Hafez al-Assad and his son, Bashar, ruled Syria ruthlessly ... support of the Trump administration is looking for greater ambition,” Natasha Hall, a senior fellow with ...