In 2011, as the Arab Spring took hold across the Middle East, the seeds of Syria's revolution were sown by students and young ...

The fall of Assad will not revive the Arab Spring. Instead, it marks the continuation of Syria’s transformation into a ...

Simon Adams of the Minnesota-based Center for Victims of Torture on Assad’s ‘industrial-scale’ human-rights abuses.

To move forward, Syria had to end the Assad family’s half-century rule. Now, Syrians have a real chance for a peaceful future ...

Now that Bashar al-Assad is gone and Turkey has emerged as a clear winner in the regime change episode, Recep Erdogan will ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Steven Heydemann, Middle East Studies director at Smith College, about how Syria might avoid replicating Arab countries that are worse off after overthrowing dictators.

The American Ambassador to Syria at the start of the uprising believes that the U.S. could still help give the Syrians a ...

Even with hopes running high, so much can go wrong when a country ousts a longtime dictator and tries to start anew ...

Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan, an expert on Middle Eastern issues, delivered an extended lecture here at the headquarters of Jamaat-e ...

All that one can safely say at this stage about the impact of the Arab Spring phenomenon is that it has shown a harsh mirror ...

The Assad regime remains a litmus test for the global Left, with the Syrian right to liberation suppressed in favour of false ...

Let’s remember the Syrian flags and the joy of those who waved them as we navigate what lies ahead – for their struggle is ...