Shiite rituals for Ashoura in Damascus have drastically changed after the fall of Syria's former President Bashar Assad.

Akram Ojjeh built his fortune as a middleman for French arms sales to Saudi Arabia, up until his death in 1991. The legal ...

Assad used chlorine and sarin repeatedly during the Syrian civil war. Following a particularly horrible sarin attack in Ghouta in 2013, Assad agreed to eradicate his chemical weapons program, but ...