Since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011, various local militant groups have risen to prominence.

ALBAWABA - Syrian actress Toulin Al-Bakri has broken her silence following the controversy surrounding her confrontation with a taxi driver in Damascus.

The failure to extradite the former general from Lebanon to Syria could hinder the country’s fragile transitional justice ...

Mediators have asked US President Donald Trump to give them more time for negotiations before any potential attack on Iran, ...

Syrian security forces arrested five former militia and intelligence members affiliated with the ousted Bashar al-Assad regime for their involvement in massacres and serious crimes against ...

'Syria after Assad' (2/4). Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad's dictatorial regime one year ago, more than 1.2 million exiled Syrians have returned home. The journey back has often been extremely ...

After a video showed Hassan Diab in the aftermath of a chemical attack on Douma, Syria and Russia pushed him to call it a fiction. Eight years later, he and his family finally feel safe enough to spea ...

A former interrogator with Syria’s notorious secret police said in a rare interview he did what he could to spare the accused of torture but it was only putting off the inevitable.

Bashar al-Assad was the 19th president of Syria, entering office in 2000 succeeding his father Hafez al-Assad as the country's leader and as head of the Ba'ath Party. He was ousted in December 2024 by ...

Omani co-pilot Hammam al-Hammami allegedly tried to bring down a flydubai flight after attacking its Indian captain with an axe. Oman hasn't been linked to any big Islamist terror plot till now. So, ...

Syria has submitted Tawfik Sabouni’s The Other Side of the Sun as its candidate for the Best International Feature Film category of the the 99th Academy Awards.

This month, thousands of Syrians poured into the streets in the broadest protests since al-Assad’s fall. Unlike under his ...