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

Six months since the collapse of the Assad regime, the Russian military presence in Syria has remained entrenched in ...

Photographer Seamus Murphy went to the West Bank in 2004 to shoot a movie. Two decades on, how have lives there changed?

TO GO WITH STORY BY NATACHA YAZBECK (FILES) A picture dated June 13, 2003 shows Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his brother Maher (L) attending their father's funeral in Damascus on June 13, 2000 ...

Syria has revealed the line-up of its new interim government, which includes members of religious minorities and early veterans of the 2011 uprising against Bashar al-Assad. Syrian President Ahmed ...

While President Hafez al-Assad abandoned some of the more explicit socialist policies in 1970 and his son Bashar brought in neoliberal reforms after taking office in 2000, much of the economy was ...

Under transitional president Ahmed al-Sharaa, the government will work on privatising state-run industrial companies, which Hanan said totalled 107 and were mostly loss making. However, he vowed to ...

Syria’s first post-Assad protests broke out on Dec. 25 after a video claiming to show the destruction of an Alawite shrine spread rapidly across Facebook. The video was quickly debunked as several ...

Al-Assad and his father, Hafez, have been accused of a litany of crimes and abuses over the past 54 years, including torture, rape, mass executions, enforced disappearances and chemical attacks.

The regime of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad airlifted around $250 million (Rs 2,082 crore) in cash to Moscow, according to a stunning revelation made in a Financial Times report.

Ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad says he had planned to keep fighting but the Russians evacuated him, in his first public statement since fleeing to Moscow over a week ago. From a post ...