Bashar al-Assad ruled Syria as president from July 2000-December 2024. His father, Hafez al-Assad, ruled Syria from 1970-2000. The ongoing violence against civilians has been condemned by the Arab ...

For Syrians observing Ramadan, this Muslim holy month is their first in their homeland since the end of the Assad family's ...

The one thing holding Syria together now is Ahmed al-Sharaa, who has taken on the near-impossible job of teaching his people ...

At the start of the new year, 115,000 Syrians had already returned home from Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. In December, the ...

Damascus] For the first time in more than five decades, Syrians are observing the holy month of Ramadan without the rule of ...

In the 12th century, the Andalusian poet and traveler Ibn Jubayr described the agricultural lands around Damascus as “the ...

They'd been bloodied not that long before in a grueling war with Iran ... We stood aside throughout much of the Syrian civil war and mostly let nature take its course. We've allowed socialist ...

The second Sudanese civil ... war, and a hired security force to repress popular uprisings. RSF leader Hemedti became one of Sudan’s wealthiest men by seizing control of gold mines. Before ...

an eatery that serves authentic Syrian cuisine in the form of shawarma. Previously, in the first part of our interview, he spoke about what life was like in Syria before the civil war, the ...

By Damien Cave and Steven Erlanger The United Nations warned that the detention of Vice President Riek Machar threatens to push the world’s youngest country back into civil war. Benjamin ...