Among the sacred places mentioned in Islamic sources are Mecca, Sinai, and Jerusalem, but also Syria (the Shām) and ...

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

The Assad regime cultivated ethnic and religious divides that threaten Syria's future even after the dynasty's fall.

Hope and uncertainty fill the streets of Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. The challenges of rebuilding are enormous ...

From horror to hope, Syrians are embracing a new political order as they turn the page on the Assad dynasty and grieve the ...

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

With the stunning change of leadership in Syria and the end of a 50-year reign of the Assad regime, the significance of religious history in Syria shouldn't be overlooked. Most Syrians are now Muslim, ...

While the country’s conflict lines have been largely stalemated since 2020, Syria’s economic woes have only multiplied in the ...

The end of the Assad dynasty was not just the fall of a regime; it was the dismantling of a political system built on ...

After dedicating his life to fighting the regime of Assad, Mazen Al-Hamada did not live to see it fall. A symbol of ...

For the first time in a decade, US diplomats are in Damascus to hold official meetings with Syria's new de facto rulers led ...