Jon Lee Anderson reports from Damascus. Plus: the insidiousness of the entrepreneurial economy; fear and hope on the subway; ...
A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk ...
Riad Sattouf’s saga of his parents’ failed bicultural marriage, with its harsh depiction of life in rural Syria, has become a ...
Often mysterious, the graffiti preserves fragments of what the anonymous inmates were thinking as they faced torture and ...
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.
More than a month after the prisons were opened by insurgents who ousted Assad in December, The Associated Press toured ...
One inmate quoted an 800-year-old poet writing, "My country, even if it oppresses me, is dear. My people, even if ...
EU sanctions include bans on oil imports from Syria, as well as a ban on investment in the Syrian oil industry and a freeze ...
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - The head of an American organisation focused on hostage releases said on Monday he believes U.S. journalist Austin Tice was still being held in Syria by people loyal to toppled ...
The fall of more than 60 years of Ba’ath Party rule in Syria — 50 of those years under the Assad family, father and son — is a watershed moment for the Middle East. Even so, many of Assad ...
DEIR SHMAYEL, Syria — In the mountains east of Syria’s Mediterranean coast, armed patrols root out Assad loyalists, masked gunmen monitor checkpoints and residents fret every strange face coul ...