Syrians are now visiting the seaside villa of the ousted President Bashir al-Assad. The compound had been off-limits since it was built for the Assad family 50 years ago.

As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both overjoyed and anxious. Assad and his family are Alawite, an offshoot of Shia ...

A deluge of false or misleading information about Syria has flooded social media. Local and international actors are exploiting preexisting divisions to advance their own aims, experts say.

Armed militias led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, an al Qaeda offshoot, took over the country in early December and forced the president to flee, ending five decades of the Assad family's rule.

"That night, and under the rain, they set up a new tree in the same spot ... efforts to build a cohesive state after 53 years of Assad family rule. The need for a cohesive and discipled Syrian ...

Assad and his family were forced to flee to Russia ... On Tuesday, protests broke out in the country over the burning of a ...

“But more broadly you will have seen that we have very tough sanctions in place against the Assad family and the former ... fighters burned down a Christmas tree in the centre of the country ...

Twinkling lights, stars, bells and revolutionary flags are strung above the ancient streets of the old city of Damascus.

In the courtyards of longtime restaurants, Christmas trees shone brightly as people ... For more than 50 years, the Assad family elevated Alawites above others in the country.

The protests are the largest by the Alawites since Assad's fall earlier this month, and come a day after hundreds of Syrians protested in the capital Damascus against the torching of a Christmas tree ...