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 ...

Saudi Arabia's top diplomat said Friday the kingdom was seeking to help Syria's new authorities secure the lifting of international sanctions, during his first visit to Damascus since Bashar ...

He has finally found a copy of "Al-Maabar" (The Passage) by Syrian author Hanan Asad, which recounts the conflict in Aleppo from a crossing point linking the city's rebel-held east with the ...

Sharaa heads the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) that led the rebel offensive that toppled Assad. HTS has its roots in the former Syria branch of Al-Qaeda, but it broke ties with the ...

One of them, 19-year-old Zakaria al-Hiji from the eastern city of Deir al-Zor, said he had disliked Assad's rule but liked what he had seen so far of the new authorities. He said his cousins ...

of Bashar al-Assad's personal funds being locked in a London bank. While frozen, these assets represent only a fraction of the £163 million linked to Assad’s inner circle. Their presence has ...

The prime minister has called for strengthening ties with the US and stalled calls for a phased withdrawal of US troops from the country following the sudden collapse of Bashar al-Assad's regime ...

Despite Syrian President Bashar Assad's ouster last month in a lightning insurgency, the country’s dire economic conditions haven't changed DAMASCUS, Syria -- Samir al-Baghdad grabbed his pickax ...

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 ...

The interim government, which took power after rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) toppled the Assad regime, has repeatedly called for the sanctions to be lifted. Syria's new administration ...

From detainee to responsible for branch Majid Uddin Ahmad Al-Houshan, a resident of Damascus' Qaboun neighborhood, was detained by the Assad regime on July 21, 2011, while still a high school student.