In Arabic, Assad means “lion,” although that wasn’t his real name. Hafez, Bashar’s father, had adopted it to look strong. Hasan was born in the northeastern Syrian city of Manbij, 18 years before the ...

The genocide in Gaza lays bare the harsh realities of modern geopolitics, highlighting the mechanisms of power in a world ...

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...

Syria's interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa visits Ankara on Tuesday for talks with Turkey's leaders on rebuilding his land and ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

An Apache helicopter patrolled the outskirts of the city of Hassakeh as a heavily loaded pickup truck, filled with displaced ...

Syria is open to letting Russia keep its air and naval bases along the Mediterranean coast as long as any agreement with the ...

The U.S. freeze comes as IS tries to take advantage of the vacuum created by the fall of Assad’s government in early December ...

AL-HOL, Syria (AP ... U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led SDF, that IS was preparing to attack the camp after Assad’s fall. Security was increased and the situation is under control, she said.

Ankara and Damascus are working on a plan for defense cooperation, according to a Turkish official, who added that Turkey's ...

The new Kurdish assertiveness is evident not only in Iraq but also in Syria, where the YPJ, a Kurdish militia, has partnered with the U.S. military to fight the Islamic State (ISIS), Turkey ...