One year after the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) publishes the profiles of the media professionals who disappeared or were taken hostage under his rule and who ...

These are the 10 most-streamed new FRONTLINE documentaries of 2025 — and they're all streaming for free at pbs.org/frontline, on YouTube and in the PBS App.

The brand new true-crime documentary The Secrets We Bury premieres on Investigation Discovery Tuesday, Dec. 16 at 9/8c. The latest ID documentary revisits a decades old mystery involving a Long Island ...

Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is living in near-isolation in Russia, sidelined by President Vladimir Putin, one year after fleeing Syria following the collapse of his rule, according to a ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — As they mark the first anniversary this week of toppling Bashar al-Assad's regime, Syrians are also celebrating another likely milestone. The U.S. is on the verge of removing ...

Extensive Russian influence in Syria goes back to the Soviet era and survived the collapse of the USSR and the end of communism. It appears that now Russian influence in Syria has survived the fall of ...

ALEPPO, SYRIA — Early Monday morning in Aleppo, soldiers lined the streets near the old city walls, standing in loose formation beside battered buildings as men gathered quietly around them. Almost no ...

DAMASCUS, Syria—During 13 years of revolution and war, the Syrian dictatorship of President Bashar al-Assad set a high water mark for cruelty in the 21st century, disappearing tens of thousands of ...

Few places display the cost of civil war as starkly as Syria. On my first visit back since serving as the American ambassador from 1998 to 2001, the country is barely recognizable. The large, Sunni ...

Damascus, Syria – On the morning of December 5, 2025, a taxi drove me across the Lebanon-Syria border. This time was different from my first trip across, in the early hours of December 9, 2024, just a ...