In Afghanistan, distrustful of President Bush’s ‘good vs evil’ and ‘you’re either with us or against us’ narrative, he did ...

Syria has begun its first public trial of officials linked to the Assad regime, as a cousin of the fallen dictator Bashar ...

Assad, Kurdish families struggle with cold, loss and uncertainty — feeling abandoned by the U.S. allies they once fought ...

Syria has recorded a significant improvement in press freedom in 2026, rising 36 places to 141st in the latest rankings ...

After the fall of Syria’s dictatorship, areas once forbidden were suddenly exposed. Prisons where thousands disappeared, neighborhoods reduced to rubble, and a country left to rebuild itself came into ...

Bereaved families demand death penalty, starting with Atef Najib, a former general and cousin of the ousted dictator, who was ...

President Barack Obama on Sunday gave voice to the conundrum at the heart of his Syria policy, acknowledging that the U.S.-led military campaign against the Islamic State group and al-Qaida’s ...

The city on the Euphrates, once a cradle of civilization, suffered under a succession of recent rulers. Our visit found it ...

A drug-running cousin of former Syrian dictator Bashar Assad was convicted last week in a federal court in Virginia of plotting to trade military-grade weapons for a shipping container's worth of ...

How to make sense of the 13-year conflict? An aerial photo shows crowds of Syrians raising a giant independence-era flag, used by the opposition since the uprising began in 2011, as they celebrate the ...

More than 227,000 people have fled conflict in Lebanon for Syria. But there they have found a lack of housing, economic ...