A train station in Damascus was once the pride of the Syrian capital, an essential link between Europe and the Arabian ...
Often mysterious, the graffiti preserves fragments of what the anonymous inmates were thinking as they faced torture and death.
Languishing in a dungeon cell of Syria’s then-ruler Bashar Assad, an unknown prisoner scrawled a verse of Arabic poetry on ...
Awda's rising profile and growing ties with Arab states that oppose Syria's new Islamist rulers make him a threat?
After rebel groups closed in on Damascus, it was reported on the 8th December that Syrian President Bashar as-Assad and his family had fled to Moscow. Leading the rebels was Ahmed al-Sharaa, the emir ...
Peter Ford served in the UK Foreign Ministry for many years including being UK Ambassador to Syria (2003-2006). He speaks ...
The ex-dictator's methods are highlighted by tons of documents that weren't burned in the fall of the regime. Mamdouh, a ...
NATO ally Turkey has emerged as the dominant state power in a new Syria, and is seeking to press its advantage by bombing and ...
Geopolitics abhors a power vacuum. One country’s loss is another’s gain, and the space left by Iran is being occupied, for ...
The new interim Syrian government says it will hunt down and punish senior security officials and others, but concern is ...
The incident, which left two members of the transitional security forces dead, marks the latest violent challenge to the new ...
A new type of Syrian refugee is fleeing across the border into Lebanon: those who once supported dictator Bashar Al-Assad.