Languishing in a dungeon cell of Syria’s then-ruler Bashar Assad, an unknown prisoner scrawled a verse of Arabic poetry on ...

Often mysterious, the graffiti preserves fragments of what the anonymous inmates were thinking as they faced torture and ...

An Anadolu team uncovered one of the largest drug storage facilities used by the Bashar Assad regime in a port in the coastal ...

Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad were allegedly communicating before rebels took over the Syrian government in December.

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 ...

An Assad loyalist was executed in public by fighters linked to the country’s new Islamist-led administration, according to a ...

The rebel alliance that took power has vowed to prosecute senior figures from the ousted government, but accountability will ...

Syria's new central bank governor, Maysaa Sabreen, said she wants to boost the institution's independence over monetary ...

The system of detention, torture and death run by Syria’s former ruler, Bashar Assad, is starting to come out into the open ...

An Assad official claims Putin betrayed his ally by promising support that never came.

Iran is at a crossroads — either embrace “realpolitik” through practical, realistic negotiations with the West or “roll the ...