The American mainstream media may have some ability to get away from government policy talking points when covering domestic ...

The UN is urging Syria's interim leaders to protect civilians amid fighting between security forces and those who remain ...

Syria’s interim president, Ahmed al-Shara, appealed yesterday for calm and unity after violence erupted last week between ...

Hamas says it has accepted a proposal from mediators to release one living American-Israeli hostage and the bodies of four dual-nationals who had died in captivity.

For more than two years, a junior officer in the Syrian military, his sister and a friend risked their lives to collect evidence of the atrocities being committed by the regime. Their work changed the ...

More than a decade had passed since Ahmed al-Sharaa squeezed into the narrow lift that went up to his parents’ 10th-floor ...

Celebrations erupted around Syria and crowds ransacked President Bashar al-Assad’s luxurious home on ... Stories of Refugees Trapped in Greece, the book I wrote with Eyad, but suffice it to ...

Bashar Al-Assad had a secret bunker in his palace ... according to a new survey 2,000 year old book about Roman emperors enters bestseller charts What if the Airbus A400M was a passenger plane?

Abdulwahab Omira escaped Syria’s war with his family as a teenager. He recently returned as a Stanford graduate student and a budding entrepreneur, hoping to help jumpstart the country’s tech industry ...

If Washington listens to Israel and facilitates the return of the Russians, it will have reversed the one good thing to have ...

There was also much Western solidarity with Ali Farzat, a prominent Syrian cartoonist, who was kidnapped and his hands broken in 2011 for drawing a cartoon of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Iran was Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's most critical ally for more ... colours of the Iranian flag and there are a few Persian books on a rocky shelf. Forces had to leave in a rush, taking ...