The article explores why Syria, despite its early independence, was unable to establish a democracy, instead evolving into a ...

In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

A packed concert hall in Damascus came alive this week with cheers as Wasfi Maasarani, a renowned singer and symbol of the Syrian uprising, performed in celebration of “Syria’s victory.” ...

Photographers beckoned passers-by to take their picture outside the Umayyad Mosque, an edifice steeped in history that stands at the end of the Souq, in the heart of Damascus. The Umayyad Mosque ...

The Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp near Damascus was devastated by the Syrian civil war. The scene of violent clashes ...

With the future of the city in the balance, a cultural historian looks past the corruption, violence and trauma of recent ...

Bel Trew joins those searching Damascus and other sites across the country for journalist Austin Tice and other American citizens who went missing under the brutal regime of Bashar al-Assad ...

Such ambitions must be put on hold because Trump’s reform plans also extend to the cleanup of the media world’s propaganda ...