See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. On Sunday morning, a lightning offensive by Syrian rebels ended with ...

An entire generation of Syrians has never known freedom and so when it swept over them, last Sunday, there was shock, then joy, and a desperate hope that it might last. Damascus is a city nearly 5,000 ...

On the anniversary of the 2018 Yarmouk camp attack, Alexander Bustos argues the Assad regime worked to weaken Palestinian liberation at every turn.

In the aftermath of the astonishing collapse of the al-Assad dynasty, long-suffering Syrians should be allowed a moment of joy and celebration, says Daniel Corrou, S.J., even if what comes next ...

(JTA) — The fall of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has opened up a sea of uncertainty about Syria’s future — and about the treasures of its past, including the remnants of its Jewish history. Well ...

France's court dropped Assad's warrant citing immunity, but rights groups stress the ruling still clears a path for future accountability. This statement was originally published on scm.bz While the ...

The fall of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has opened up a sea of uncertainty about Syria’s future — and about the treasures of its past, including the remnants of its Jewish history. A 13-year civil ...

I spent my childhood summers being driven from Lebanon, where my maternal family lives, to Syria, home to my paternal side. The shift as we drove from one border to the next always felt like stepping ...

Here's a remarkable split-screen moment in American politics, fraught with terrible timing. Former U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, a one-time Democratic candidate for president turned ardent ...

As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both overjoyed and anxious. Assad and his family are Alawite, an offshoot of Shia ...

Hayan Hadid was 18 when soldiers arrested him in his pyjamas and took him for execution in Syria's Hama in 1982, during one of the darkest chapters of the Assad clan's rule. "I've never really talked ...

Syrian history presents many lessons for Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the radical Islamist group now leading a transitional process there, and those who wish to see a peaceful, secular and democratic Syria.