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 ...

A planned overhaul of Syria’s education curriculum is spurring concerns about the new government’s assurances that it will ...

International aid planes and foreign diplomatic delegations have already been landing in Syria. Domestic flights have also ...

In the Mazzeh 86 neighborhood, west of the Syrian capital Damascus, the names of many shops, grocery stores, and public ...

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

When Bashar al-Assad lost control of the oil-rich areas in eastern Syria, most of which came under the control of the Syrian ...

Critics feared the changes represent a slippery slope in which the Islamist rebel faction Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which ...

In a wide-ranging interview, the political economist Helen Thompson discusses how the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria has ...

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.

Saydnaya prison north of the Syrian capital Damascus has become a symbol of the inhumane abuses of the Assad clan, especially ...