The country’s industrial capital, a religious melting pot and a strategic crossroads, is trying to rise from the devastation ...

Bel Trew spent days travelling across Syria – from Aleppo in the north, to the capital Damascus and Deraa in the south – ...

Bel Trew meets the new police chief in Syria’s third city, tasked with keeping the peace now that forces led by the Islamist ...

While the country’s conflict lines have been largely stalemated since 2020, Syria’s economic woes have only multiplied in the ...

A man who was filmed by CNN being released by rebels from a Damascus jail was a former intelligence officer with the deposed ...

CNN admitted on Monday that it had been misled by a man who the network initially reported to be a Syrian prisoner freed from ...

Homs, Syria’s third city, is nicknamed the “cradle of the revolution”. It witnessed some of the fiercest battles of the 13-year civil war – the scars of which are chiselled into many ...

Syrians who remained loyal to him through years of civil war fume that he left without a word. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The toppling of Bashar Assad has raised tentative hopes that Syrians might live peacefully and as equals after a half century ...