Riad Sattouf’s saga of his parents’ failed bicultural marriage, with its harsh depiction of life in rural Syria, has become a ...
Jon Lee Anderson reports from Damascus. Plus: the insidiousness of the entrepreneurial economy; fear and hope on the subway; ...
Often mysterious, the graffiti preserves fragments of what the anonymous inmates were thinking as they faced torture and ...
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 ...
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 ...
Throughout the war, which has killed more than 500,000 people and displaced half the population, Assad's position has not changed. He has been the subject of countless cartoons by dissident ...