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 ...

President Donald Trump has issued a “full and unconditional pardon” to Washington, DC, police lieutenant Andrew Zabavsky and ...

DAMASCUS SYRIA - ldquoHeres a good first line for yourdquo says VOA photojournalist Yan Boechat as we drive up to a former ...

Now a bestselling novelist, McCloskey reveals why he quit ‘the secret world’ to write spy fiction worthy of le Carré ...

The Yemen-based Houthis signaled a pause in their months-long attacks on commercial ships following a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.

He had been dreaming of going back home ever since arriving in Turkey in the summer of 2014. To soothe his panic attacks in ...

The United Nations human rights chief on Wednesday called for the lifting of Western sanctions imposed on Syria over its ...

A new type of Syrian refugee is fleeing across the border into Lebanon: those who once supported dictator Bashar Al-Assad.

After 10 years in Turkey, artist Givara Haji was deported back to Syria, where his art now takes on new significance in the ...

For more than a decade, some 6 million Syrians fled the Assad regime for other countries. Now, the opposite is happening. With the fall of that dictatorship last December, a new kind of refugee is ...