The two Iowa National Guard members killed in a weekend attack that the U.S. military blamed on the Islamic State group in ...

Mohammad Marwan has been struggling to rebuild his life after being released from Syria’s Saydnaya prison a year ago HOMS, Syria -- A year ago, Mohammad Marwan found himself stumbling, barefoot and ...

Mohammad Marwan has been struggling to rebuild his life after being released from Syria’s Saydnaya prison a year ago. Arrested in 2018 for fleeing military service, he endured beatings, ...

“Raise your head up high, you’re a free Syrian” goes the chorus of the Arabic song that has become the unofficial anthem of the new Syria. It’s everywhere in the capital Damascus – blasted out from ...

From exile in Moscow, ex-intel chief Kamal Hassan and Assad cousin Rami Makhlouf are spending millions of dollars in competing efforts to build fighting forces that would lead a revolt along Syria’s ...

The total number of dead detainees confirmed by a team of reporters from ICIJ. They conducted a data analysis of the photographs and confirmed the yearly totals. The data recorded at least 20 ...

A new 20-minute CNN investigation by chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward centers on Austin Tice, who was captured and detained in 2012 by the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria. Tice is the ...

DHUMAIR, Syria -The Assad government carried out a two-year clandestine operation to truck thousands of bodies from one of Syria’s largest known mass graves to a secret location more than an hour away ...

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally circa 2010. If he was forced to pick a favorite ...

Bashar al-Assad passes the time playing online video games in his Moscow high-rise, according to a former military officer close to the Assad family who spoke to German newspaper Die Zeit. The ousted ...

When Mutassim Abdulsatir arrived at Syria's Sednaya prison, accused of so-called state terrorism activities, he stepped into a world of terrifying violence. "We would lie flat on our bellies like this ...

Syrians are awaiting the results of the first elections since the fall of Bashar al-Assad, which authorities hope will represent a new chapter for the war-torn country. Sunday’s limited vote was “a ...