QARDAHA, LATAKIA, Syria — There is a long, winding road leading to what was once the family home of ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad just outside Latakia on Syria's Mediterranean coast.

DEIR SHMAYEL, Syria — In the mountains east of Syria’s Mediterranean coast, armed patrols root out Assad loyalists, masked gunmen monitor checkpoints and residents fret every strange face coul ...

A bookseller shows a volume that was reportedly banned during the rule of Syria's ousted president Bashar al-Assad — LOUAI BESHARA Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on radical ...

New Middle East correspondent Henry Bodkin talks to Venetia Rainey about his recent trip to Syria where he went out on the road with ruling party Hayat Tahrir al-Sham looking for former Assad regime ...

New Middle East correspondent Henry Bodkin talks to Venetia Rainey about his recent trip to Syria where he went out on the road with ruling party Hayat Tahrir al-Sham looking for former Assad ...

Syria’s war began in 2011 when Assad unleashed a crackdown on democracy protests, prompting soldiers to defect from the army and civilians to take up weapons. When Eastern Ghouta, where ...

Washington had already eased sanctions on Syria following Assad's overthrow, with the EU widely expected to follow suit when it addresses the issue at its next foreign ministers' meeting on Monday.

Focus on Islamic teachings in police training raises concern among some Syrians Police trainers say this is to instil a sense of morality in recruits Bashar al-Assad's security forces had a ...

UN urges West to lift sanctions against post-Assad Syria 01/26/2025 January 26, 2025 The UN refugee agency says 200,000 Syrians have already returned home since the fall of Bashar Assad.

Security forces used to regularly raid a Damascus district where many phone stores operate to enforce an Assad-linked company's monopoly — Louai BESHARA Syrian phone shop owner Abdel Razzaq Hamra was ...

Last month, Islamist-led rebels captured the northern city in a lightning offensive, going on to take Damascus and toppling Assad, ending more than half a century of his family's oppressive rule.

Damascus (AFP) – Syrian phone shop owner Abdel Razzaq Hamra was thrilled to finally be working in peace after years of being harassed and detained by security personnel enforcing an Assad-linked ...