Western sanctions were part of an effort to pressure al-Assad to change his actions, and Western policymakers argue that they ...

Amid an outcry for justice and accountability and threats online, a once-dominant group is feeling deep anxiety after the ...

While relative peace and stability have followed the Assad regime’s collapse, the proposed educational changes have stoked ...

Earth-shattering events do not reveal their secrets quickly, and the recent breakdown of Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime in ...

The foreign ministers from Germany and France visited the notorious Sednaya prison near Damascus on Friday, a symbol of the ...

Cliche has it that behind every great man stands a woman—and as it happens, the same also applies to murderous dictators.

Rebel fighters stand with the flag of the revolution on the burnt gravesite of Syria's late president Hafez al-Assad at his mausoleum in the family's ancestral village of Qardaha in the western ...

Hafez al-Assad rose to power in a coup on November 13, 1970, marking the beginning of a new era in Syria. At the time, the country was characterised by political instability, with a series of ...

From the first Ba'athist coup, in 1963, Syria became a totalitarian one-party state. Hafez al-Assad's government "deployed unrestrained violence", said Middle East politics expert Sefa Secen in Time.

Syria’s new interim prime minister has pledged to protect minority rights and bring security to the country in an interview with Al Jazeera, amid reports that the tomb of Hafez al-Assad ...

The 24-year rule of Bashar al-Assad has apparently come to an end after rebel forces entered the capital Damascus.