Directors, writers and actors who had to appease censors in the regime of former Syrian President Bashar Assad, now face a ...

The statement put out by the conference said, “Based on historical responsibility and in response to the requirements of the ...

Like many Syrians, I'd only ever known the country under the rule of Assad and his father Hafez, who had been in power from ...

Unknown assailants vandalized the tomb of Rabbi Chaim Vital, a prominent Jewish scholar, in Damascus earlier this week. The ...

Palmyra was considered one of the world's most intact ancient Roman sites. ISIS blew up many key monuments of this storied ...

Syria’s new president, the former rebel leader Ahmed al-Shara.Credit...Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times In an interview with The New York Times, President Ahmed al-Shara urged the United ...

For years, Ahmed al-Shara was the leader of a rebel group once allied with Al Qaeda that was fighting the rule of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria. After a rebel coalition led by his group ...

Syria’s foreign minister on Friday raised his country’s new flag at UN headquarters in New York, hailing the move as a “proclamation of a new existence” after the fall of Bashar al-Assad.