The Alawites feared retribution, and for good reason. The Alawites used terror to maintain power for decades. Most Syrians have good reason to hate the Alawites, as well as all those who have ...

Amid an economic downturn and growing hardships for many Egyptians, Sisi has opted for a strategy reliant on fear - ...

Under the old regime, jokes about elections, the dollar or even mentioning the president's name could mean arrest or worse.

For the past quarter century, Iran endured a bitter conflict between the ideological aspects of the “revolution” and the ...

Externally, the Iranian regime appears preoccupied with managing its proxies, future investments in Syria, and rehabilitating Hezbollah ... The Iranians also see the results of the ‘Arab Spring’ and ...

Iran's facing major losses in Syria and its weakening 'Axis of Resistance' and regional influence are not well received among ...

AFP photographer Sameer al-Doumy never dreamed he would be able to return to the hometown in Syria that he escaped through a ...

Two Syrian doctors and a nurse told AFP in a series of interviews over the weekend that Bashar al-Assad's government coerced ...

The Assad family dictatorship which has run Syria for 53 years and has withstood 13 years of bitter civil war, has now ...

Syria’s new government will have to deal with the challenges of rebuilding the country and its political future after the ...

Examining the political, economic, and security impacts of Beijing losing a key ‘strategic partner’ in the Middle East. | Read this and other China Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Syrian Civil War hea ...