A year ago, Syria’s new leader pledged to 'close the notorious prisons' run by Bashar al-Assad. But prisons and detention ...

Then came the second wave in late winter: Hundreds of people from Assad’s Alawite sect, mostly men, were seized by the new ...

Israel is using a manufactured “ceasefire” and US-backed diplomatic cover to prepare for expanded wars against Iran, Gaza, ...

The Justice Department faces a Friday deadline to release its files on Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender and wealthy ...

Abdullah Öcalan’s Kurdistan Workers’ Party is engaged in high-stakes negotiations with the Turkish government over a peace ...

Last Saturday, an Islamic State infiltrator ambushed a meeting between American soldiers and their local counterparts in a ...

The gunman who killed two U.S. soldiers and an American civilian interpreter had been set to be dismissed from the security ...

Assad's regime, Syrians also celebrate another coming milestone: the lifting of sanctions, which could help give the country ...

Critics say Syria’s fledgling government is hobbling military preparedness as it redoes the country’s forces from scratch.

ICIJ and its partners organized and analyzed thousands of chilling photographs to assemble comprehensive victim lists and ...

Syria is struggling to heal a year after the Assad dynasty's repressive 50-year reign came to an end following 14 years of civil war that left the country battered and divided.

Army helicopters fly overhead during a parade by the new Syrian army marking the first anniversary of the ousting of the Bashar Assad regime in Damascus, Syria, Monday. (Ghaith Alsayed | AP) HOMS, ...