Often mysterious, the graffiti preserves fragments of what the anonymous inmates were thinking as they faced torture and ...

Languishing in a dungeon cell of Syria’s then-ruler Bashar Assad, an unknown prisoner scrawled a verse of Arabic poetry on ...

Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad were allegedly communicating before rebels took over the Syrian government in December.

NATO ally Turkey has emerged as the dominant state power in a new Syria, and is seeking to press its advantage by bombing and ...

The rebel alliance that took power has vowed to prosecute senior figures from the ousted government, but accountability will ...

Syria's new central bank governor, Maysaa Sabreen, said she wants to boost the institution's independence over monetary ...

The United Nations human rights chief has called for the lifting of Western sanctions imposed on Syria over its yearslong ...

An Assad loyalist was executed in public by fighters linked to the country’s new Islamist-led administration, according to a ...

The incident, which left two members of the transitional security forces dead, marks the latest violent challenge to the new ...

Geopolitics abhors a power vacuum. One country’s loss is another’s gain, and the space left by Iran is being occupied, for ...

Hundreds of Syrians came to Arizona to escape dictator Bashar al-Assad. After Assad's ouster, will Syria be home again?

A packed concert hall in Damascus came alive this week with cheers as Wasfi Maasarani, a renowned singer and symbol of the ...