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 ...

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.

The mother of American journalist Austin Tice says the Trump administration offered support to help find her son, who ...

EU sanctions include bans on oil imports from Syria, as well as a ban on investment in the Syrian oil industry and a freeze ...

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 ...