Donald Trump’s pick to oversee 18 intelligence agencies with a $100 billion spy budget is facing renewed scrutiny over an ...

The leader of the former rebel group that toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad has been named the country’s interim ...

The summer home of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad was once off-limits to ordinary Syrians. Now people are lining up to visit ...

U.S. director Matty Brown’s allegorical drama "The Sand Castle,” which sees Lebanese multi-hyphenate Nadine Labaki reunite on screen with young "Capernaum" siblings Zain and Reman Al Rafeea – who are ...

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 ...

Sanctions against allies of ousted President Bashar al-Assad who “committed serious crimes” during the Syrian civil war must remain in place, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on ...

“Think of North Korea,” said Belal. “That’s Syria.” Similarly, medical student Zain compared al-Assad’s regime to the Red Terror, the campaign of political repression and executions which took place ...

As a new transitional government took shape in Damascus following the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad in December 2024 ... SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Zain, fifth-grade student (full name not given ...

The tunnels, seen by an AFP correspondent, are among secrets of president Bashar al-Assad’s rule exposed since rebels toppled him on December 8. “We entered this enormous barracks of the ...