Before joining the military and building an Alawite caste around himself, Hafez al-Assad was a fervent supporter of the ...

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...

Two months after the dramatic fall of Bashar Assad’s regime, Syria stands at a definitive juncture. The country, ravaged by years of brutal conflict, now faces the daunting task of rebuilding ...

Since Islamist rebels overthrew the Assad dictatorship in Syria, Egypt, with parallels in its own recent history, has watched ...

Syrian heritage professionals are rallying to safeguard and restore the country’s ancient treasures following the fall of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December 2024. “Unfortunately ...

Forty-three years after the Assad government killed 40,000 people and levelled entire neighbourhoods, Hamawis reflect on ...

Released from prison in 1993, he became a pharmacist and returned to studying history. When Bashar al-Assad's 2011 crackdown on pro-democracy protests sparked war, Qattan joined an armed group, ...

A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved in suppressing the protests that started the 2011 uprising has been detained inside Syria, according to state news agency SANA.

Series'The al-Assad saga' (Part 3/4). Amid the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War and talks with Israel, Hafez al-Assad's top priority was always to have one of his sons ...

A delegation from the global chemical weapons watchdog has arrived in Damascus to meet with Syria's new leaders for the first time since the fall of former President Bashar Assad.