Syrian soccer player Abdel Basset al-Sarout became the poster child for the Syrian revolution with his iconic protest anthems ...

A war monitoring group says the number of people summarily executed by Syrian security forces in former president Bashar al-Assad's Latakia stronghold has risen to 134. We speak to a Syrian Alawite in ...

Now to Syria - many things have changed there since the Regime of Bashar al-Assad fell in December. NPR's Jane Arraf climbed on board the victory train in Damascus. It was once a propaganda tool for ...

ALBAWABA - Syrians mourned yesterday vocalist and activist Qasim Al-Jamous in a tragic accident on the Bloudan-Al-Dimas ...

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) ARRAF: When Bashar al-Assad's repressive regime fell, it's as if a spell had been broken. Driving past his former hilltop palace, the driver plays a song comparing Bashar to a ...

The Alawite minority in Syria was loyal to the regime of former president Bashar al-Assad before he was overthrown ... you will be received with songs and flowers." Several demands were presented ...

By Euan Ward Mehdi Yarrahi, a popular Iranian musician, was arrested in a 2023 crackdown after releasing a song that praised ... toppled Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. The conflict poses a ...

Former President Bashar al-Assad's sudden fall from power in December ... peacefully"-as well as nonviolent marches and vigils, and creative song and dance. Above all, protesters called for ...

After the fall of Bashar Al Assad's regime on December 8th ... singing revolutionary songs for the first time in over a decade – some hoping for Raqqa's reintegration into a unified Syria.