DNI nominee Tulsi Gabbard faced heavy lines of questioning from lawmakers skeptical of her past endorsement of NSA leaker Edward Snowden and meetings with former Syrian dictator Bashar Assad.

Jon Lee Anderson reports from Damascus. Plus: the insidiousness of the entrepreneurial economy; fear and hope on the subway; ...

The United Nations refugee chief said Saturday that some 200,000 refugees have returned to Syria from neighboring countries ...

Riad Sattouf’s saga of his parents’ failed bicultural marriage, with its harsh depiction of life in rural Syria, has become a ...

Gabbard is expected to face a tougher road to confirmation due to criticism over her previous comments supportive of Russia and meetings with then Syrian President Bashar Assad in 2017.

As you walk through the cold, dark cells of Assad’s prisons, the graffiti on the walls cry ... Some drawings are even playful, like googly-eye cartoon faces or a joint of hashish. Others are flights ...

Often mysterious, the graffiti preserves fragments of what the anonymous inmates were thinking as they faced torture and death.

As you walk through the cold, dark cells of Assad's prisons, the graffiti on the walls cry out. They plead to God and yearn ...

More than a month after the prisons were opened by insurgents who ousted Assad in December, The Associated Press toured ...

As you walk through the cold, dark cells of Assad’s prisons, the graffiti on the walls cry ... Some drawings are even playful ...

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Reflecting on the turbulences and upheavals in global politics last year, it is evident that 2024 was a year of profound significance in shaping and transforming the trajectory of international ...