The city can finally mourn the tens of thousands of victims of Hafez al-Assad and the massacre he ordered 43 years ago.

Children's school uniforms hung on the door. Their academic workbooks lay on their desks. Toys covered in dust were still ...

On March 9, 2013, members of Assad's military intelligence arrested Rania Al-Abbasi's husband, Abdul Rahman Yasin, in their home, before returning to loot all the gold and money, seize three cars, ...

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The clashes marked a major escalation in the challenge to the new government in Damascus, three months after insurgents took ...

An NPR investigation finds that more than 350 Syrian children were secretly placed in orphanages across the capital, Damascus, when the Assad regime was in power. Now, some of them cannot be found.

sharing pictures of the crowds. Russia, a key backer of Assad’s regime, is negotiating the future of its military bases in Syria with the new government. Asked about the fighting in the coastal ...

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Alawites made up a large part of Assad's support base for decades ... the residents said, sending the AP photos of the bodies draped in white cloth as they were lined in the mass grave.

Photos shared with the AP showed bodies wrapped ... that government forces had regained control over most areas seized by Assad loyalists. Authorities have also sealed off roads to the coastal ...