Freed from the Assad family and its apparatus of cruel repression, Syrians remain euphoric about the sudden collapse of a ...

After 467 days of violence, Israel and Hamas have agreed to a detailed peace plan. But with more negotiating ahead, the ...

Inclusivity and moderation are indeed immediate priorities for Syria, but a big national vote is not. Democracy does not itself guarantee peace in a country so recently riven by autocratic rule and a ...

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

UNICEF has warned that hundreds of children in Syria continue to suffer the brutal impact of unexploded ordnance ...

The United Nations human rights chief has called for the lifting of Western sanctions imposed on Syria over its yearslong ...

In a Damascus courtyard, Syrian activists brainstormed strategies to ensure their country does not return to authoritarianism ...

But as a new government takes shape in Damascus, Syrians and foreign observers alike worry about how inclusive, ...

As Syria’s new Islamist rulers reshape the way schools teach the nation’s history, students struggle to navigate the traumas ...

A month after the regime fell, some Syrians and Syrian Americans are already planning their first visits to the country after ...

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk arrived in Syria's capital, Damascus, on Tuesday for the first ...