Syria’s relations with Iran and Russia remain an open wound for the country’s people after the nations backed autocratic ...

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

With views of Germany on one side of the mountain and Austria on the other, the Berghof was the most public of Hitler’s private homes, and it exerted a powerful hold on the Nazi imagination of empire.

Ahmad al-Sharaa, and with the its foreign minister. Moscow’s scorched-earth intervention in support of Assad once turned the tide of Syria’s civil war. Syria’s new authorities have not cut ...

But no one cooperated, he said. Shebat believes the victims were civilians who fled the nearby Al-Assali neighborhood when the fighting escalated and the Assad government imposed a siege in 2013.

It was not immediately possible to verify the Iraqi minister’s assertions about an expansion in ISIS ranks and territory in the weeks since al-Assad’s overthrow in December. The long-standing ...

When Bashar al-Assad ruled Syria, merchants like Youssef Rajab kept much ... "It was a strange feeling, but I was happy," added the 23-year-old, speaking beside shelves stacked with imported products.