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 ...

Sham, are refusing to respond to the social and political demands of former President Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite minority, ...

The Paris-born, Damascus-raised director Soudade Kaadan reflects on life under Assad – and looks ahead with hope to a future ...

Six years ago, at the time of the first Trump administration’s Muslim ban and its initial round of vicious anti-immigrant policies, I visited a refugee ...

Rana Khoury, professor in LAS, spoke in a lecture on Tuesday about Syria’s past and future after the collapse of the Assad regime.

Since the Islamist HTS militia seized power in Syria, reports of excessive violence and executions of members of religious ...

Syrian security forces arrested Brigadier General Atef Najib, a cousin of ousted president Bashar al-Assad and former head of ...

After the fall of the Assad regime, Syrians grasp for answers and a path to restoration under new president Ahmed al-Sharaa.

Hayan Hadid was 18 when soldiers arrested him in his pyjamas and took him for execution in Syria's Hama in 1982, during one ...

The appointment of Ahmad Al Shara as President of Syria by his own supporters has sparked fears the country will fail to ...

With Syria's corruption-ridden economy in shambles after the overthrow of Bashar Assad, the caretaker government’s priority ...

For decades, statues of Hafez al-Assad symbolized power and repression. Today, they fall as Syrians reclaim public spaces ...