There are more than five million people who have become refugees in their own country.

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In a wide-ranging interview, the political economist Helen Thompson discusses how the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria has ...

When Syrian rebels roared into Damascus after a lightning advance on the capital, they exalted in their triumph over ...

In images captured by Associated Press photographers in December, rifle-toting opposition fighters celebrated in the streets ...

A bleeding Donald Trump raising his fist in defiance minutes after narrowly avoiding assassination was arguably the image of ...

Despite her pleasant air and sense of fashion, the now former Syrian First Lady Asma al-Assad was bound to be tied to her husband's fate. Born and raised in the UK, she was respected by some for ...

WARNING: This story includes graphic descriptions of torture. Nabil Hawara painfully remembers the endless cycle of torture that he endured in one of Syria's most notorious prisons. For 20 years ...

Prisoners who had been arbitrarily detained were released after years or even decades, but hundreds of thousands remain missing, bringing to light how former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and ...

Long-time Des Moines resident Dr. Ahmad Yasser Al-Shash recalled the warning signs of authoritarianism as Hafez al-Assad rose to power shortly before Al-Shash immigrated to the U.S. For Dr. Ahmad ...

I look at myself, and I close my eyes. I am the survivor of Assad’s massacres, the survivor of torture ... On the day I was called to be released, I was washing my clothes in a blue plastic basin. I ...

“Something is very wrong here,” the woman said. After Assad’s sudden fall, many in this coastal province fear they will be made to pay for the crimes of his regime. Over the past ...