Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), is an icon to many Kurds but a "terrorist ...

Assad’s regime was toppled, Charlie Smart, a reporter at The New York Times, traveled to a mass burial site in Syria to ...

Shiite rituals for Ashoura in Damascus have drastically changed after the fall of Syria’s former President Bashar Assad ...

A cemetery near Damascus was transformed into an industrial-scale mass grave for Syrians who opposed President Bashar ...

A busted portrait of a busted dictator: A photo of Bashar al-Assad in a facility formerly part of the Assad regime’s Political Security Branch on the outskirts of Hama, following the capture of the ...

Less than two weeks after Ahmad al-Sharaa ousted Bashar al-Assad in Syria, a U.S. State Department delegation arrived in ...

Premieres Tuesday, July 1, 2025 at 10:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Syria's uncertain future under Jihadist-turned-statesman Ahmad al-Sharaa. After the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Correspondent ...

Once seen as a modernizer, Bashar al-Assad’s leadership quickly descended into authoritarianism, marked by mass repression and a devastating civil war. This video traces his ascent to power ...

Wasim al-Assad’s arrest catalyzes efforts to dismantle Syria’s war-time political economy—especially the illicit networks that sustained the regime. The state’s seizure of Captagon production sites ...

The European Union has enforced an asset freeze and travel ban on five individuals linked to the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, accusing them of supporting crimes against humanity. The ...

Wasim al-Assad, widely regarded as a central financier of the Syrian regime and its affiliated militias, stands accused of playing a pivotal role in the Captagon trade network—now considered a primary ...