A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk ...

But such research was conducted while Assad was still in power, and it has only been several weeks since Assad fell. As a ...

Wafa Mustafa had long dreamed of returning to Syria but the absence of her father tarnished her homecoming more than a decade after he disappeared in Bashar al-Assad's jails.

Both Bashar al-Assad and his father ruled Syria with an iron fist ... but it was ruled by the minority Alawite sect for more than five decades. The Assad family was Alawite, as were most of the ...