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

For more than a decade, Mr. al-Assad remained in power, employing vicious means to do so while enjoying an obscene amount of ...

You can’t extinguish fire with fire. You can’t address a mistake with another mistake. You have to correct the situation in ...

As Syria breaks free from dictatorship, its artists, both in the diaspora and those returning, capture the struggle, hope, ...

DAMASCUS, SYRIA - “Here’s a good first line for you,” says VOA photojournalist Yan Boechat as we drive up to a former ruling ...

Despite the Ba'ath Party's defeats in Iraq and Syria, many Jordanians still see Saddam Hussein as an Arab leader who was only ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A train station in Damascus was once the pride of the Syrian capital, an essential link between Europe ...

Syria has faced such transitions before. Unless secular, pro-democracy advocates learn from the past, we risk falling into ...

The end of 2024 delivered a surprising turn of events in the 13-year-long war in Syria. Bashar al-Assad’s regime collapsed ...

German Development Minister Svenja Schulze was in Syria on Wednesday to promote aid projects and meet with Syria's ...

A colossal statue of Hafez al-Assad was once a powerful symbol of Syria’s ruling regime, looming over the Damascus-Aleppo ...