Assad's ouster, there are questions about the fate of the Syrian Democratic Forces, the U.S.-backed Kurdish coalition that ...

The intertwined misrule of Syria by its Shia Alawite minority led by the Assad dynasty and the secular Baath Party is over.

Former Syrian rebels who now serve as part of the new Syrian government's armed forces posed for photo portraits with their ...

After fifty-four years of Assad family dictatorship collapsed in a few days, a new Syria is going to be born. Every decent ...

From revisiting Animal Farm to diving deep into history and finance, here are some of the books these newsmakers spent time ...

Hadeel al-Shalchi is an editor with Weekend Edition. Prior to joining NPR, Al-Shalchi was a Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press and covered the Arab Spring from Tunisia, Bahrain, Egypt, ...

The rebels capturing Damascus marked a turning point for Syria, which had been shattered by more than 13 years of war which ...

Muslim armies, advancing north from the Arabian Peninsula, were able to easily enter Damascus from its east gate, which was ...

The wealthy Arab states were anxious before the first election of Donald Trump in the year 2017 about the reduced US role in ...

On Tuesday, al-Shaara’s fledgling government announced a landmark agreement: anti-Assad rebel forces will disband, their ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Bethlehem prepared Tuesday to mark another somber Christmas in the traditional birthplace of ...

In Syria, after 13 years of civil war, armed rebels took the capital Damascus, in a lightning advance, prompting President ...