A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk ...

Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on radical Islamic theology now sit openly in Damascus bookstores, no ...

The former insurgents on Wednesday also threw out Syria’s constitution, adopted under Assad, saying a new charter would be ...

Mansour, known for threats against Egypt's government. His arrest may ease Cairo's anxiety over the rise of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham rebels, who recently overthrew Bashar Al-Assad. The Egyptian media has ...

Built on a hill 30 kilometers from Damascus, the Saidnaya prison has instilled terror in generations of Syrians: a place of ...

Officers say the move aims to instil a sense of morality as they race to fill a security vacuum after dismantling ousted ...

years after President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi came to power by toppling the Muslim Brotherhood. Egypt backed president Bashar al-Assad until the eleventh hour, and with the Islamists of Hayat Tahrir ...

DAMASCUS—Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on radical Islamic theology now sit openly in Damascus ...

The Islamist takeover of Syria has left Egypt apprehensive and cautiously calibrating future ties, years after President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi came to power by toppling the Muslim Brotherhood.