Amid the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War and talks with Israel, Hafez al-Assad's top priority was ...

Before joining the military and building an Alawite caste around himself, Hafez al-Assad was a fervent supporter of the ...

The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the ...

The regime set up by Hafez al-Assad after the coup d'état of November 13, 1970, had only one objective: Its own continuity, ...

Assad's fall enabled the Zawaya Art Gallery to emerge from semi-secrecy. Filmmaker Oussama Mohammed returned from exile for a ...

Syria's new interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa on Tuesday met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, where they ...

Iran emerged from its eight-year war with Iraq (1980-1988) battered: its economy in shambles, no allies to count on, a ...

A few months after the epochal fall of the Assad dictatorship, Syria remains in flux. Nonetheless, some broad outlines of ...

The termination of Russia rsquo;s lease on the Tartus port signals a monumental shift in the geopolitical landscape of the Middle East .

Khaled has been an activist calling for Syrian freedom since 2011 when small protests in the country marked the beginning of the Syrian uprising.

Zammar reportedly took credit for influencing Ramzi bin al-Shibh and the rest of the Hamburg group. Owing to Zammar’s ...

The democratic future of Syria can only be represented through the actual position of women in society. Meanwhile, Ahmed al Sharaa, the current interim president of Syria known to the head of ...