SDC maps path to decentralized future as Assad's fall creates delicate balance between Turkish threats and Islamist forces ...

But such research was conducted while Assad was still in power, and it has only been several weeks since Assad fell. As a ...

A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk ...

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

The summer home of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad was once off-limits to ordinary Syrians. Now people are lining up to visit ...

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

Syria's de facto leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, has sought to reassure Western officials and Middle Eastern governments worried ...

Whatever else differentiates ideologies and tactics from one another, Islamist groups will still seek personal redemption through “sacred violence.” ...

In essence, jihadist terror is a convenient form of religious sacrifice. Moreover, the jihadi rallying cry, “We love death,” ...

When more than 3.5 million Syrian students took exams this week, the first since the fall of longtime ruler Bashar Assad, they didn't have to answer questions on "Syrian nationalism" anymore. The ...

Israel-Hamas war has profoundly altered the Middle East’s geopolitical landscape. Iran and Russia, once dominant forces, have ...