Sense and political realism oblige writers to contain their emotions and focus on methodology and intellect, expressing joys and sorrows cautiously and only within reason. However, if our brief time ...

Residents of Syria’s capital are picnicking on a once-forbidden mountaintop and trading openly in dollars and imported ...

DAMASCUS, Jan 5, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - On the slopes of Mount Qasyun which overlooks Damascus, a network of tunnels links a ...

Changes announced to Syria's school curriculum have sparked backlash over fears that Ahmed al-Sharaa and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham ...

Documents released this week by the new government in Syria spur concerns about whether it will seek to impose a conservative ...

Syria’s 54-year dictatorship under Hafez al-Assad and his son Bashar, now exiled in Russia, was one of the world’s most despised regimes.

The foreign ministers from Germany and France visited the notorious Sednaya prison near Damascus on Friday, a symbol of the ...

Saydnaya prison north of the Syrian capital Damascus has become a symbol of the inhumane abuses of the Assad clan, especially since the country's civil war erupted in 2011.

How the rebels treat the sizeable Alawite population, will be some kind of litmus test of whether the takeover of Damascus ...

In-depth: The discovery of mass graves containing tens of thousands of bodies has given new insight into the scale of ...

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When Syrian rebels roared into Damascus after a lightning advance on the capital, they exalted in their triumph over ...