For people of Syrian descent with Maryland ties, the news of rebels toppling the Assad regime has been met with mixed ...

Geneva - It is necessary that Syria attain transitional justice and uphold the rights of all people and groups who have ...

This has been an extraordinarily heartbreaking year for the peoples of the Middle East. No one could have predicted the ...

Syrians living inside and outside their country are trying to figure out what comes next after the Assad regime fell. We hear ...

Assad, who fled to Russia, will be forced to stand trial. That is not deterring activists who have worked for years to ...

The Assad regime survived on violence and complicity. But to be sustainable in any authoritarian context, that violence ...

Beyond the geopolitics and tactical recalibrations around the fall of the Assad regime, there's the huge human implication of ...

Moving, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the past three ...

Bashar al-Assad is safely ensconced in Russia, which had long supported his prison state with arms, fighter jets, and forces ...

Slender shoulders, a limp handshake and soft-spoken lisp. Those were the most vivid memories from my meeting with Bashar al ...

When some of the leaders in the Middle East and Asia are dethroned and driven into exile, the cynics jokingly ask: Is he ...

Joy sparked by Assad's overthrow accompanied by uncertainty about the future of the multi-ethnic, multi-confessional country ...