Since Islamist rebels overthrew the Assad dictatorship in Syria, Egypt, with parallels in its own recent history, has watched ...

DNI nominee Tulsi Gabbard faced heavy lines of questioning from lawmakers skeptical of her past endorsement of NSA leaker ...

Several books that were previously banned and only available to Syrians if they were pirated online now frequently pop up on ...

Syria's rich history of peaceful coexistence is a natural blueprint for interfaith governance after the sham pluralism of the ...

Assad’s rhetoric of not exporting the socialist ... allowing them to further consolidate their hold on power. History underscores these stakes. When Baath officers staged their 1963 coup ...

QARDAHA, LATAKIA, Syria — There is a long, winding road leading to what was once the family home of ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad just outside Latakia on Syria's Mediterranean coast.

Syria has faced such transitions before. Unless secular, pro-democracy advocates learn from the past, we risk falling into ...

Assad's fall has presented Ankara with a window ... Fidan has said that Turkey is proud to have been "on the right side of history" in Syria but has no desire to "dominate" it.

Assad, an ally of Moscow, took refuge in Russia after his ouster in December in a lightning rebel offensive. The delegation included Russian deputy foreign minister Mikhail Bogdanov and the ...

New Middle East correspondent Henry Bodkin talks to Venetia Rainey about his recent trip to Syria where he went out on the road with ruling party Hayat Tahrir al-Sham looking for former Assad ...

Theirs was the first such visit since President Bashar al-Assad fled the country, according to Russian state news. By Paul Sonne A top Russian delegation arrived in Damascus on Tuesday for the ...

The EU started to impose asset freezes and travel bans on Syrian officials and organizations in 2011 in response to Bashar Assad’s crackdown on protesters, which festered into a civil war.