When Hafez al-Assad, an Alawite minority member, seized control of the Ba'ath Party in Syria in 1970, he faced a significant ...

Discover more about Syria's religious demographics – what are the biggest & smallest groups & where do they live in the country?

Lebanon – home to thousands of Syrian refugees – has long suffered at the hands of the Assad family’s 54-year rule.

Nadia’s eyes were full of tears as she crossed the border from Syria to Lebanon. She was finally going to see her son. A ...

The last public sighting of Assad was in a meeting with the Iranian Foreign Minister, on 1 December, when he vowed to "crush" ...

Syria’s facilitation of foreign fighters to wage an insurgency in Iraq spawned the rise of Al Qaeda in the region. Due to its ...

Image found on Jack Danaher Molloy's devices by law enforcement. (credit: Western District of Pennsylvania US Attorney's ...

Syria’s interim government vowed on Thursday to institute the ‘rule of law’ after years of abuses under ousted president ...

A couple, Mohammed and his wife, were among those returning to Syria. They were all smiles as they waited for their documents ...

Imtiaz Sooliman, the founder of Gift of the Givers, sustained an attack on his credibility from one of South Africa’s most ...

The Assad family dictatorship, which ran Syria for 53 years and withstood 13 years of bitter civil war, collapsed in just over a week. A sweeping series of Islamic rebel attacks, starting in late ...

Syria is a weak state with a weak economy and therefore a weak army. Syria is basically a factory for drugs in a corrupted dictatorship. The only business that works is sending drugs to Jordan and to ...