The smuggling routes to the West Bank had two routes: the first passed through Syria to Jordan; the second route began in ...

As Syrians seek to recover from decades of a brutal dictatorship, they want to learn what happened to missing loved ones. For ...

Israel sees Assad's fall as a chance to revive the idea of a Druze state, stoke sectarianism in Syria and seize more land. If ...

Arabic literature is struggling to reach English-speaking readers, with few works being translated despite a rich cultural ...

In 1994, the line of succession changed in what seemed a promising way. Basil al-Assad, the “hero” and Hafez al-Assad’s ...