In Syria's third city Homs, members of ousted president Bashar al-Assad's Alawite community say they are terrified as new ...

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Jailed for rejecting Assad’s orders during Hama’s massacre, Al-Tatari's release after 43 years marks the resilience of human ...

Members of the Syrian rebel group HTS (Hayat Tahrir al-Sham) on Saturday surveyed the aftermath of a battle in Hama which ...

Syria's future will depend on the ability of democratic and progressive groups to organise themselves in the face of both ...

Moral evangelists in power preaching about democracy and human rights resemble dowdy advocates of family values .

In a meeting with Oman's foreign minister, Ahmadian insisted that Iran's anti-Israel axis of resistance was "not weakened" after the December 8 fall of Assad, a longtime Tehran ally. Iran's ...

Since the fall of the Al-Assad clan, Syrians have been uncovering mass graves believed to be linked to the former regime.

There is now a space, with its contradictions and challenges, for Syrians to try to rebuild popular civil resistance from below and from alternative power structures. And that is already a great hope ...

On Friday, the wife and daughter of one of deposed Syrian president Bashar Assad’s cousins were apprehended at Beirut airport for attempting to leave with allegedly forged passports, according to ...

Syria’s embassy in Lebanon suspended ... and as many as 40,000 by some estimates – in an uprising in Hama in 1982. The massacre earned Rifaat the nickname the “Butcher of Hama” and he ...

inhumane treatment and illegal detentions” while an officer in the Syrian army. His part in the notorious Feb 1982 massacre in the western city of Hama, in which between 10,000 and 40,000 people ...