Today they get to be celebrated and mourned. The chants that got Hamada and scores of others killed ring through Damascus.

With the Assads gone the many different pieces in Syria’s intricate social and religious mosaic are about to be re-ordered; some are particularly vulnerable to being lost With the Assads gone ...

Syria's embattled government said Saturday it was setting up a ring of steel around Damascus, state media reported, as rebels on a lightning advance said they were bearing down on the city.

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani confirmed the call had taken place, and said that the two countries shared a role in ...