These were anti-regime, pro-democracy demonstrations aimed at toppling dictatorial governments. Backed by Iran and Russia, the regime led by Bashar al-Assad survived the revolutionary wave carried out ...

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 ...

RUBA: (Speaking Arabic). FENG: ...Where Ruba said she saw people of several sects flee, not just Alawites like her - an offshoot of Shia Muslims which former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and his ...

She is a rare example of a former top state employee promoted after Syria's new Islamic rulers' lightning offensive led to President Bashar al-Assad's fall on Dec. 8. "The bank is working on ...

Then-Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi speaks during a meeting with then-Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem ... As a result, in today’s post-Assad Syria, China faces complicated dilemmas.