Though they could never remove her Olympic gold medal, Ghada Shouaa says the Assad family stole her joy. Her heptathlon win in 1996, she adds, has always been for the Syrian people, and never for ...

By Dec. 7, Assad’s regime was beginning to collapse ... Mick Krever, Eyad Kourdi and Dana Karni contributed to this report.

Dana, near Sarmada in Idlib province, is less than 40km east of second city Aleppo, but had been cut off from the rest of the country until the fall of president Bashar al-Assad less than a week ago.

Dana, near Sarmada in Idlib province ... but had been cut off from the rest of the country until the fall of president Bashar al-Assad less than a week ago. It is a major shopping centre because ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — The Assad regime made Syria an informant state, with surveillance that turned the country on itself. Neighbors and colleagues reported on each other in every district and ...