As the US celebrates 200 years since the Declaration of Independence, China is rocked by the Tangshan earthquake and the ...

The organization and attacks of ISIS in Turkey reveal the consequences of the Turkish government’s reactionary policies ...

Thousands of documents and interviews with Assad-era officials reveal how the regime worked to conceal evidence of its ...

We documented how the dictator Bashar al-Assad and his henchmen conspired to hide evidence of torture and deaths of detainees ...

Syria’s government has ordered soldiers to guard a mass grave created to conceal atrocities under Bashar al-Assad.

This was the first confirmation since Assad’s ouster in December 2024 of a former Syrian government official being in Lebanon ...

A year ago, Syria’s new leader pledged to 'close the notorious prisons' run by Bashar al-Assad. But prisons and detention ...

Assad is said to spend his days playing video games and brushing up on his ophthalmology skills in his luxury Moscow flat and ...

Despite mixed results, observers generally praised the Arab Spring as a revolutionary democratic moment for a region long mired in tyranny. Yet, 15 years on, it is clear that while popular demands for ...

On December 17, 2010, Tunisian vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire, triggering protests across the Arab world.

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 ...

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 ...