A 13-year civil war has cost the country more than 600,000 lives and saw some 100,000 people “forcibly disappeared” into ...

Theodore J. Singer was the CIA’s former head of Middle East operations. He doesn’t hold out much hope after Bashar al-Assad’s ...

Bathed in the glow of the winter sun, the colonnades of ancient Palmyra are perhaps Syria’s most precious sight.

Much has been said about tyrants by Shakespeare, who described them well. The ancient Greeks said even more. And look at what ...

Syria has reached a crossroads,” says Mullingar author, Anthony Viney, recalling his journey there in late 2011 as the ...

May we have better days', interim Prime Minister Mohammed al-Bashir tells worshippers as thousands join celebrations in ...

The new rulers are taking control of institutions hollowed out by corruption and a devastated economy — amid a desire for revenge from some victims of Assad ...

It was summer 1993 when we touched down, hot and tired, in Damascus, Syria ... to ancient towns, forgotten cultures, and amazing people. We walked through the fortress of Aleppo, climbed ruins ...

Bathed in the glow of the winter sun, the colonnades of ancient Palmyra are perhaps Syria ... ruins of Queen Zenobia’s 3rd-century city are long in the past. In the 13 years since the last coachload ...