Syria has faced such transitions before. Unless secular, pro-democracy advocates learn from the past, we risk falling into ...

The end of more than a decade of civil war in Syria and the fall of the Assad regime has given archaeologists around the ...

The article explores why Syria, despite its early independence, was unable to establish a democracy, instead evolving into a ...

The December collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria was stunning. Not only did it mark the end of the Assad family’s ...

SYRIA WAS once a thriving hub of diverse merchant cities. During the Islamic Golden Age (from the eighth to the 13th centuries) the region that is modern-day Syria made notable contributions to ...

After the ouster of Syria's longtime leader Bashar al-Assad last month, Israel's military has taken up a new post in the ...

Following the ousting of Assad on 8 December, photos and videos from inside the prisons shared on social media revealed that ...

Syrian history presents many lessons for Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the radical Islamist group now leading a transitional process there, and those who wish to see a peaceful, secular and democratic Syria.

On the heels of the Israeli-Egyptian war in 1973, the situation in the Israel-Syria sector became increasingly unstable in ...