The ousted Assad ... Syria as “having a name.” Those who spent their entire lives terrified by the prospect of having a security file are now openly asking officials about their status under ...

Syria's Kurds faced constant oppression under Assad's Baathist regime, but in July 2012 they seized the opportunity presented by civil war chaos to secure their freedom. Kurdish armed groups took ...

until you consider the alternative Syria’s economy, still strangled by sanctions, is on its knees Under Mr Assad Syria sank from middle-income status to abject poverty. Women saw branches off ...

By Carlotta Gall and Christina Goldbaum Reporting from Damascus, Syria Syria’s interim president ... more than 50 years of dictatorship under the Assad family’s iron-fisted rule.

DAMASCUS, Syria — In the fall of 2018 ... He said that was better than detention under the Assad regime. But after hearing that some children of detained women were hidden in orphanages ...

(Khalil Ashawi/Reuters) Since Assad was ousted, Sharaa has pledged to run Syria in an inclusive way. While many Syrians believed the Alawites were favoured under Assad, who had included many ...

Clashes between Syrian security forces under the country's new, Islamist authorities and gunmen loyal to ousted President Bashar al-Assad in Syria's western coastal region have killed more than ...

The deal marks a major breakthrough that would bring most of Syria under the control of the government led by the group that led the ousting of President Bashar al-Assad in December. The deal to ...