When Shobut thinks of home, she recalls Syria's lemons. The smell is fundamental to her memory of Damascus, she explained.

As Syria breaks free from dictatorship, its artists, both in the diaspora and those returning, capture the struggle, hope, ...

Once Syria's most influential minority, Alawites struggle to move on from their association with a hated dictator.

FILE.- An opposition fighter steps on a broken bust of the late Syrian President Hafez Assad in Damascus, Syria, Sunday Dec. 8, 2024. Credit: AP/Hussein Malla The Baath party, whose aim was to ...

A rivalry developed between the Syrian branch under Assad and his late father, Hafez, and the one in Iraq under Saddam Hussein, who was removed from power by a U.S.-led invasion in 2003.