The Palestine Branch was one of the most feared security centers in Syria, infamous for its brutal interrogations, arbitrary ...

The government of Bashar al-Assad made the media in Syria a tool of its propaganda. It arrested and intimidated writers and journalists who opposed the official line. Books were censored and ...

Salami was killed in the first Israeli strikes, along with other key commanders. Although Iran replaced the commanders ...

In recent months, American officials have raised the fate of Austin Tice in talks with Syria’s new leadership, led by its ...

The city is exhausted by war, but during my first visit since the fall of the old regime, a sense of optimism prevailed ...

Since the fall of the Assad regime, "widespread poverty" and the "collapse" of the nation's "once-feared security apparatus" have sparked a "gold rush" of looters, robbing 2000-year-old graves for ...

Documents reveal how Syria’s fallen government hid hundreds of abducted children during the country’s civil war.

President Trump has a chance to create the best opportunity for stabilizing the Middle East in decades, if he is up to it.

British journalist Patrick Seale’s book Asad of Syria ... This description remains relevant after the fall of the Assad regime, as Syria grapples with fragmentation and competing global and ...

Syria has gone from being a pariah nation to one receiving considerable international support despite the dangers of wishful ...

Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on radical Islamic theology now sit openly in Damascus bookstores, no longer traded in secret after iron-fisted ruler Bashar al-Assad's ouster.