Often mysterious, the graffiti preserves fragments of what the anonymous inmates were thinking as they faced torture and ...

Languishing in a dungeon cell of Syria’s then-ruler Bashar Assad, an unknown prisoner scrawled a verse of Arabic poetry on ...

NATO ally Turkey has emerged as the dominant state power in a new Syria, and is seeking to press its advantage by bombing and ...

The United Nations human rights chief has called for the lifting of Western sanctions imposed on Syria over its yearslong ...

Geopolitics abhors a power vacuum. One country’s loss is another’s gain, and the space left by Iran is being occupied, for ...

The rebel alliance that took power has vowed to prosecute senior figures from the ousted government, but accountability will ...

Hundreds of Syrians came to Arizona to escape dictator Bashar al-Assad. After Assad's ouster, will Syria be home again?

An Assad loyalist was executed in public by fighters linked to the country’s new Islamist-led administration, according to a ...

Syria's new central bank governor, Maysaa Sabreen, said she wants to boost the institution's independence over monetary ...

A packed concert hall in Damascus came alive this week with cheers as Wasfi Maasarani, a renowned singer and symbol of the ...

Iran is at a crossroads — either embrace “realpolitik” through practical, realistic negotiations with the West or “roll the ...

An Assad official claims Putin betrayed his ally by promising support that never came.