King George VI died in his sleep. It was a defining moment in the British monarchy. Princess Elizabeth, then 25, was in Kenya. She would return as Queen Elizabeth II ...

Sheikh's excitement at returning to his homeland from neighbouring Turkey after the fall of Bashar al-Assad has turned to ...

The regime set up by Hafez al-Assad after the coup d'état of November 13, 1970, had only one objective: Its own continuity, ...

A prison in Syria holds about 4,500 members of the Islamic State group who have been there for years without trial.

France, like other EU countries, has expressed a desire to engage with Syria’s new administration and lift sanctions on the ...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R–S.C.) has finally found a war he doesn't like. During a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...

A prominent media professor has been arrested and suspended for her alleged role in helping the Assad regime persecute ...

In-depth: After Assad's fall, Syrian civil society is reorganising for an inclusive political transition and to claim a role ...

Of the billions of tax dollars spent by the U.S. Agency for International Development Office (USAID) that are being ...

When Bashar al-Assad was overthrown by Islamist rebels in Syria in December after 14 years of civil war, there were concerns ...

An Indonesian woman who felt duped into joining the Islamic State’s ”caliphate“ in Syria tells TIME of the challenges of ...

Syria's Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said on Wednesday the group had not received any plans from the U.S. forces in northern and eastern Syria to withdraw.