Here’s a look at ongoing civil war in Syria. Facts Bashar al-Assad ruled Syria as president from July 2000-December 2024. His father, Hafez al-Assad, ruled Syria from 1970-2000. The ongoing violence ...

GOAL humanitarian workers, Doaa Ghadab and Zeina Ali Bajo, outline the challenges women in Syria have faced in recent years ...

Chemical weapons inspectors have been taken by Syria's caretaker authorities to previously unseen production and storage ...

Syria’s Alawite minority consider March 7 the start of a genocidal campaign. In the eyes of the Sunni majority, it marked ...

Ismail had left his home in rural western Aleppo in 2016, after his father was killed in fighting in the country’s bloody ...

What began as protests against President Assad’s regime in 2011 quickly escalated into a full-scale war between the Syrian government—backed by Russia and Iran—and anti-government rebel ...

The Syrian Civil Defense says Ordnance from Syria’s 13-year conflict exploded in the coastal city of Lattakia, collapsing a ...

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The road to Syria was a breeze. The taxi driver, one passenger and I drove through the charming Lebanese-Armenian town of ...

The legacy of the Syrian conflict, which saw the overthrow of the Assad regime in December last year, is that 16.5 million people are in dire need of assistance, making it one of the largest ...