At the country’s most notorious prison, Syrians confront their worst fears: that they will never know what happened to the ...

The Stasi Museum in East Berlin is amazing, not least because it's the actual former headquarters of East Germany's secret ...

Syria has had a week like no other, rebels toppling President Bashar al-Assad and opening Saydnaya prison, while the hunt for ...

Leaders in countries such as Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia are worried Assad’s ouster, and the rise of an Islamist ...

Like millions of Syrians around the world, the thousands who have settled in the Detroit area are excited about the prospect ...

A severely hobbled Hezbollah was in no position to help defend former Syrian President Bashar Assad, a longtime ally, from ...

Assad’s fall to bomb all the Syrian military assets it wanted to keep out of the rebels’ hands – striking nearly 500 targets, ...

After insurgents toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad this month, many senior officials and members of his dreaded ...

Thousands gathered in northwestern Syria on Friday for weekly prayers and a rally where clerics in the port city of Latakia, ...

Syrian cyclist Bassel Soufi rode his bike 40 km (25 miles) from the northwestern city of Latakia on Friday to visit the Assad ...

The battle for Aleppo fractured the city along social and economic lines. Whether people here can live together again will ...

In the shadow of the Syrian civil war, the drug trade emerged as a grim cornerstone of Bashar al-Assad's regime.