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

Although Syrian President Bashar Assad was toppled last month in ... “We're very happy with our liberation, thank God, but there are few jobs,” said Walid Naoura, who works with his father ...

Judges in France have reportedly issued a new arrest warrant against Syria's deposed leader Bashar al-Assad for alleged complicity in war crimes linked to a barrel bomb attack on civilians in 2017 ...

Languishing in a dungeon cell of Syria’s then-ruler Bashar Assad, surrounded by death ... walls whisper and cry around you. They plead to God and yearn for loved ones. Often mysterious, they ...

Bashar al-Assad’s regime collapsed spectacularly when faced with a limited operation by rebel forces. Amid the turmoil, Israel expanded its occupation of Syrian land in the south of the country ...

NATO ally Turkey has emerged as the dominant state power in a new Syria, and is seeking to press ... in the December 8 ouster of hated dictator Bashar al-Assad. The celebration was short-lived ...

For more than a decade, some 6 million Syrians fled the Assad regime for other countries. Now, the opposite is happening. With the fall of that dictatorship last December, a new kind of refugee is ...