Riad Sattouf’s saga of his parents’ failed bicultural marriage, with its harsh depiction of life in rural Syria, has become a ...

As you walk through the cold, dark cells of Assad's prisons, the graffiti on the walls cry out. They plead to God and yearn ...

Often mysterious, the graffiti preserves fragments of what the anonymous inmates were thinking as they faced torture and death.

Another factory containing many bags of the amphetamine-type stimulant Captagon and other drugs was discovered near Damascus, Syria, following former president Bashar al-Assad’s fall from power.

Image: A cartoon of deposed Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad and Russian President Vladimir Putin Russian Telegram channel has claimed that Bashar al Assad may have been poisoned, sparking online ...

One inmate quoted an 800-year-old poet writing, "My country, even if it oppresses me, is dear. My people, even if ...

THERE was carnage at London’s New Year’s Eve fireworks display as thugs stormed the barriers. Revellers then experienced travel chaos as crowds packed into the likes of Waterloo ...

One of those cases involved Kiboni Savage, a man who ordered the firebombing of a home in North Philadelphia that took the ...

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

Jon Lee Anderson reports from Damascus. Plus: the insidiousness of the entrepreneurial economy; fear and hope on the subway; ...

The leader of Syria’s former rebels who toppled President Bashar Assad last month was named the country’s interim president ...

On Jan. 1, 2025, several media outlets including Newsweek and The Sun reported on a supposed poison attack on the exiled former president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, who resides in Russia ...