Comics had already been trying to foster stand-up in Syria before Bashar al-Assad’s fall. Now, they are telling jokes in a ...

Nearly three months after Assad fled, much of Syria is suspended between relief at the dictatorship’s demise and anxiety over ...

More than 1,000 Syrians died in detention at a military airport on the outskirts of Damascus, killed by execution, torture or ...

Assad's regime never recognised it and, despite his fall from power, its future remains uncertain. As well as more than a ...

Israeli attacks are angering Syrians and unsettling the country’s new leaders, who are dealing with multiple crises after the ...

Two prisoners who spent years inside Syria's deadliest prison are now sharing the horrors they endured at Sednaya military ...

Although the conference was called to chart the country’s future, the Kurdish-led militia that controls much of Syria’s ...

With the downfall of the Assad regime, Algeria lost a strong ally in the Arab region. Algiers is now seeking to establish ...

Shara’s unlikely path from membership in Al Qaeda to head of state has raised questions about how he intends to govern Syria.

STG Engineering, a Russian company that operates Syria's Tartous commercial port, said on Friday that it was continuing to work as usual and that its contract had not been annulled as some media in ...

Syria's interim president has told a national dialogue conference that the country has a "historic" opportunity to rebuild ...

Their routines included standard comedy fare — religion, sex and the pressure to get married — but the biggest punchline of ...