A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved in suppressing the protests that started the 2011 ...

Officials in Syria's caretaker government were left with a state in ruins. Some fear they aren't moving fast enough to fix it ...

While it’s unclear what exact political path Syria will take, the dilemmas the country faces are similar to the experiences ...

Decades of authoritarian rule have left Syria’s justice system ill-equipped to handle complex human rights cases. Thousands ...

As the international community celebrates the fall of another dictatorship following the collapse of Syria's Assad regime, ...

Polish paramedics treated 16 injured coal miners on Wednesday after methane ignited in a mine in southern Poland, the ...

Russia has lost a naval base after Syria ended an investment contract with Moscow, asserting its authority over the Tartus ...

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

The rebel offensive benefited from careful preparation and the support of Turkey, which occupies territory in Syria’s north ...

divided and battered as Syria. The experiences of other Arab countries whose despotic regimes collapsed testify to the challenges: None of those countries — not Egypt, not Iraq, not Tunisia ...

and a German citizen originally from Tunisia. The SDF has served as the spearhead of US-led efforts to counter ISIS in Syria for a decade, driving the extremists from their Raqqa headquarters in ...