Syria's new authorities are using Islamic teachings to train a fledgling police force, a move officers say aims to instil a ...
Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on radical Islamic theology now sit openly in Damascus bookstores, no ...
Built on a hill 30 kilometers from Damascus, the Saidnaya prison has instilled terror in generations of Syrians: a place of ...
Sham, which overthrew the Assad regime last month, reflects rising U.S. alarm that ISIS could mount a resurgence.
Since the fall of the Assad regime, the Syrian Democratic Forces' control over the former capital of the Islamic State ...
Once Syria's most influential minority, Alawites struggle to move on from their association with a hated dictator.
Supporters of the revolution in Rojava, OÄŸuz Yüzgeç and Sercan ÜstündaÅŸ spent the last three years in a Damascus jail.
The U.N. says over half the population -- some 12 million people -- don’t know where their next meal will come from.
The end of more than a decade of civil war in Syria and the fall of the regime of former president Bashar Al Assad have given ...
The United Nations refugee chief says some 200,000 refugees have returned to Syria from neighboring countries since the ...
Focus on Islamic teachings in police training ... Although religion has long been listed on identity documents in Syria, it was not usual under Assad to specify the school of thought.