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

Syria’s new transitional government was sworn in Saturday nearly four months after the Assad family was removed from power ...

Hafez al-Assad. In the interim, Sharaa had presented what seemed like another kind of miracle to Syrians: forbearance. Sharaa is a former jihadist and the founder of the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda ...

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

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

The choice of cabinet officials was seen as a litmus test for whether the rebels who ousted Bashar al-Assad would deliver on ...

Fierce clashes in Syria’s Latakia province have resulted ... hundreds of assassinations during the rule of Assad’s father, the late Hafez Al-Assad.

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa announced a transitional government on Saturday, appointing 23 ministers in a broadened ...

Syria’s security forces arrested a former intelligence chief Thursday who is accused of carrying out hundreds of assassinations under ex-regime leader Hafez al-Assad, the Syrian news agency SANA ...

Early March 2025 was when Syria’s post-Assad transition turned sour. In scenes that resembled the worst moments of Syria’s ...

Chemical weapons inspectors have been taken by Syria's caretaker authorities to previously unseen production and storage ...

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