Six months since the collapse of the Assad regime, the Russian military presence in Syria has remained entrenched in strategic locations such as the Hmeimim airbase and Tartous port on the coast, as ...

A panel of experts investigating and documenting crimes committed by the old regime share their experiences of working in the ...

Will the Middle East emerge from its disastrous post-Ottoman century? With Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon all weak, the region’s reconstruction in ways that permit peace, stability, and ...

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Syrian architect Abdel Aziz al-Mohammed could barely recognise his war-ravaged village when he returned after years away. Now ...

Syria's new president had further announced the dissolution of the Syrian army as well as armed factions that were involved in ousting Assad, including his own HTS militia.

Baathist leaders struggled to unify Syria which, to this day, is a patchwork of ideologies, religions and ethnicities (see map 4). In 1970 the defence minister, Hafez al-Assad, took over the party ...

In Homs, Syria’s third-largest city, which at the start of the civil war was nicknamed the "cradle of the revolution", the new, HTS-installed police chief explained that they are trying to ...

A visual guide to the latest developments after Syrian rebels toppled President Bashar al-Assad 13 years after the start of the country's civil war.

Israel seized the territory from Syria in the closing stages of the 1967 Six-Day War and unilaterally annexed it in 1981. The move was not recognised internationally, although the US did so ...

In Syria, the stunning downfall of the Assad regime brought jubilation to millions of people who had lived under 13 years of on-off civil war and brutal dictatorship.

Syria’s Many Factions Explained in a Single Map The rebel groups and foreign powers contending to shape the country’s future By Michael Amon , Elizaveta Galkina ...