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

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 ...

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

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 ...