Before joining the military and building an Alawite caste around himself, Hafez al-Assad was a fervent supporter of the ...

Droubi, the wife of Syria's newly appointed interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, have sparked wide interest in Syria's new ...

Iran’s presence in the Eastern Mediterranean has been dealt a powerful blow as a result of changing conditions in the region, writes ...

Syrias new interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa on Tuesday met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara where they ...

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 ...

Though Tehran scrambled to help the Assads face off the rebel assault, soldiers were turning on their own commanders ...

A prison in Syria holds about 4,500 members of the Islamic State group who have been there for years without trial.

DENNIS ROSS is Counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a Professor at Georgetown University. A former ...