More than 125,000 people have crossed from Lebanon into Syria this month, fleeing escalating violence and returning to a country that's still struggling to rebuild after more than a decade of civil ...

A group of members of the U.S.-backed terrorist group YPG, which relented to a deal with Damascus in January, will undergo training at a military ...

Ken Assad, a state champion on the ice at Franklin High as a star player and later as an assistant coach, who steered the King Philip girls’ hockey program to its first Hockomock League title last ...

Nowruz, the Farsi-language word for “new year,” is an ancient Persian festival that is also celebrated by Kurds in Syria, Turkey and Iraq as well as Iran.

A former Syrian regime official who oversaw brutal torture of detainees as warden of a prison under ex-President Bashar ...

For many Syrians, Iran is not an abstract regional player or a far-off ideological force. In Rizik Alabi’s sobering report, ...

As IRGC authority degrades in Iran’s West Azerbaijan Province, will Azerbaijani organizational structures follow the same arc ...

Taken together, the accounts reflect a pattern in which personal experience and political judgment are tightly intertwined.

Hundreds of Syrians protested in central Damascus on Sunday against new restrictions on alcohol sales, reflecting wider fears ...

Crowds of Syrians have rallied to protest authorities’ efforts to limit the sale and consumption of alcohol in Damascus.

A year after Ahmed al-Sharaa came into power, Syria is more stable — but still threatened by war in the Middle East.

An RSF investigation reveals a coordinated intelligence apparatus used to monitor, blacklist, and target reporters, with at ...