Thousands of Syria’s Jews left in recent decades. But after Assad’s ouster and easing of sanctions, they can now reconnect ...

By late 2024, with Bashar al-Assad’s regime fallen and Trump back in power, Syria had not been a US priority, with internal debate over how to engage the new al‑Sharaa administration.

Syrian fighter pilot Ragheed Tatari was 26 when he was arrested. Now 70, the country's longest-serving political prisoner is finally free after Bashar al-Assad's fall, seeking justice and ...

Rights Groups Warn Narrow Scope Could Undermine Credibility of Syria’s First Post-Assad Justice Effort In a move that could shape the trajectory of Syria’s fragile post-conflict recovery, the ...

From there, sanctions continued to be piled on Hafez’s successor and son, Bashar al-Assad, who was finally deposed from his authoritarian perch in December 2024. The sanctions remained in place ...

The last time a U.S. president met with a Syrian President was in 2000 when President Bill Clinton met the late President Hafez al-Assad, Bashar al-Assad's father.

While most Syrians lived in fear of speaking the truth, some resisted and documented the crimes of Hafez and Bashar al-Assad as they happened. Among them was Samira al-Khalil.

This was new: Until the liberation, they had to chant their loyalty to Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez, “our eternal leader.” ...

Syrian army special forces in 2005, wearing pictures of their president, Bashar Assad, his father, Hafez, and brother, Basil, on their uniform, stand guard at a Lebanese military air base. Patrick ...

Fighters linked to Syria’s ousted leader Assad mounted a deadly attack on government forces Thursday in some of the worst violence since rebels seized power.

The city can finally mourn the tens of thousands of victims of Hafez al-Assad and the massacre he ordered 43 years ago.