The longest-serving political prisoner under the regime is now revered as a hero. ‘I was always free here,’ he declares, ...

Outside Syria, everything which once looked like an Arab Spring “success story” is now either a dictatorship or a conflict ...

Those who refused were put in jails," he said, adding that any high-level officers in Assad’s forces had fled the country. While much of Syria was happy to see the ouster of Bashar al-Assad ...

a moderate Muslim cleric known for having opposed now ousted ruler Bashar al-Assad, as the country's grand mufti. "Today, this position is held by one of the finest scholars" in Syria, Sharaa said ...

Just hours after Islamist rebels ousted longtime Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in December ... to serve in the military – unlike their Muslim and Christian Arab compatriots.