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

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 ...

The trailer has been met with enthusiasm, as people express excitement over a cinema industry without the censorship and ...

A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk ...

Built on a hill 30 kilometers from Damascus, the Saidnaya prison has instilled terror in generations of Syrians: a place of ...

In the words of Axios ‘ news director, the Syrian Civil War “changed everything,” leading to the climax of the Global War on ...

Torn posters shows the late Syrian President Hafez Assad and his son the ousted Syrian president Bashar Assad, that were set at the entrance of the notorious security detention centre called ...

After the fall of the Assad regime, displaced Syrian women are feeling more hopeful. But there is still plenty of uncertainty in Syria's postwar future. The post Displaced Syrian Women Are ...

Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on radical Islamic theology now sit openly in Damascus bookstores, no ...

DAMASCUS—Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on radical Islamic theology now sit openly in Damascus ...