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 ...

The latest war in the Middle East was, both in terms of the course it took and its outcomes, resembles an earthquake. This is the latest of the earthquakes to hit the region: the 1967 war, the 1973 ...

The U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria reports ongoing sectarian violence despite commitments from Syria's new government to ...

Over 14 million Syrian refugees fled their homeland during the country's civil war. Since the collapse of Bashar al Assad's regime last year, over a million have started to return home. But for many ...

Jerusalem Post Opinion Normalization between al Sharaa's Syria, Israel possible after decades of hostilities - opinion If al Sharaa eventually delivers the state that he promises, he will have ...

As his enemies closed in on Damascus, Bashar al-Assad, who ruled over Syria with an iron fist for 24 years, used a private jet to spirit away cash, valuables and confidential documents mapping the ...

When Bashar al-Assad was toppled in December, the iconography of posters, billboards and statues emblematic of his family’s brutal decades-long grip on the country also came down. The images of ...

I was about to start covering Syria as an investigative journalist at Reuters — just as the brutal Assad regime that had ruled Syria for more than five decades collapsed dramatically in a battle that ...

Assad has found refuge with his family in Moscow, under the protection of Vladimir Putin. From Syria, meanwhile, the first stories are emerging of brutal lynchings of former government supporters.