In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

European foreign ministers agreed on a “road map” to lift financial restrictions, but the change will happen in stages.

In just two weeks, Syrian rebels have swept from their enclave in the north west to capture a string of major cities, before reaching the capital Damascus and toppling President Bashar al-Assad 13 ...

Since the 2011 uprising that sparked the war, more than 100,000 people have died in Syrian prisons, often under torture, according a 2022 estimate from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

For more than a decade, Syria’s multi-front civil war had raged, leaving the country divided and scarred. And for most of that time, the fighting showed little sign of stopping. Then, within a couple ...