Since Islamist rebels overthrew the Assad dictatorship in Syria, Egypt, with parallels in its own recent history, has watched ...

Before joining the military and building an Alawite caste around himself, Hafez al-Assad was a fervent supporter of the ...

One expert says her views are ‘so wildly fringe that her potential appointment as DNI is genuinely alarming’, Richard Hall ...

Now, foreign countries are trying to steer Syria’s new de facto leaders toward an inclusive government free of sectarian ...

The former Hawaii congresswoman isn’t just unqualified to be director of national intelligence, she’s a political opportunist ...

Several books that were previously banned and only available to Syrians if they were pirated online now frequently pop up on ...

During Assad’s rule, official autopsies of prisoners ... “He understood that the arc of history is long,” his grandson said.

An Indonesian woman who felt duped into joining the Islamic State’s ”caliphate“ in Syria tells TIME of the challenges of ...

Assad, the ophthalmologist-turned-dictator who ruled Syria with an iron fist. This video examines his early promises of ...

But in recent weeks, her vulnerability has grown amid escalating concerns over her 2017 meeting with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad and her history of praising a controversial government whistleblower.

The December collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria was stunning. Not only did it mark the end of the Assad family’s ...