The Islamist former insurgents now in charge need to build popular support and demonstrate rule of law. And they’re finding ...

Before the civil war, Aleppo was Syria’s largest city and its commercial ... Today, entire residential neighborhoods are still in ruins, their residents killed, exiled or disappeared into ...

Flashdrive' grippingly captures the enduring spirit of Syrians as they navigate the horrors of war, battling both Assad’s ...

Assad’s ouster has seen his Iranian allies end crucial oil supplies. Meanwhile, many economic sanctions that initially ...

The regime set up by Hafez al-Assad after the coup d'état of November 13, 1970, had only one objective: Its own continuity, ...

At first glance, it's a happy image -- hundreds of smiling faces torn from newspapers and pasted into a frame. But these are ...

A few months after the epochal fall of the Assad dictatorship, Syria remains in flux. Nonetheless, some broad outlines of ...

ALEPPO, Syria—Late one January night, two balaclava-clad security officers with Syria’s new government were speeding through the streets of Aleppo in pursuit of a man who had been spotted ...

A Syrian army soldier places a Syrian national flag during a battle with rebel fighters at the Ramouseh front line, east of Aleppo, Syria, Monday, Dec. 5, 2016. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File ...

Feb. 3 (UPI) --A car bomb detonated near Aleppo on Monday, killing several people, mostly women, according to Syrian Civil Defense and a human rights monitor. The explosion occurred in the city of ...

As the clock struck midnight, bringing 27 November to a close, all reports reaching the Syrian army’s military operations room in Aleppo indicated ... Syria at the time. Before Saftli's men ...