Amid the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War and talks with Israel, Hafez al-Assad's top priority was ...

After the fall of the Assad regime, displaced Syrian women are feeling more hopeful. But there is still plenty of uncertainty in Syria's postwar future. The post Displaced Syrian Women Are ...

In Arabic, Assad means “lion,” although that wasn’t his real name. Hafez, Bashar’s father, had adopted it to look strong. Hasan was born in the northeastern Syrian city of Manbij, 18 years before the ...

Sham, are refusing to respond to the social and political demands of former President Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite minority, ...

After the exodus of most Syrian Jews, a few remain in the country they have called home for centuries. The New Arab finds out ...

In the words of Axios ‘ news director, the Syrian Civil War “changed everything,” leading to the climax of the Global War on ...

The Paris-born, Damascus-raised director Soudade Kaadan reflects on life under Assad – and looks ahead with hope to a future ...

Six years ago, at the time of the first Trump administration’s Muslim ban and its initial round of vicious anti-immigrant policies, I visited a refugee ...

Rana Khoury, professor in LAS, spoke in a lecture on Tuesday about Syria’s past and future after the collapse of the Assad ...

Syrian security forces arrested Brigadier General Atef Najib, a cousin of ousted president Bashar al-Assad and former head of ...

Hayan Hadid was 18 when soldiers arrested him in his pyjamas and took him for execution in Syria's Hama in 1982, during one ...

The appointment of Ahmad Al Shara as President of Syria by his own supporters has sparked fears the country will fail to ...