MOHAMMAD AYATOLLAHI TABAAR is a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, Associate Professor of International Affairs at Texas A ...

In Latakia, a Syrian coastal city that has been the site of killings targeting the Alawite minority, four Sunni and Shiite ...

For centuries, the hakawati, an Arabic word meaning "storyteller," played an important role in Syria. In cafes, these men would sit in raised chairs and narrate wild tales to the crowds that gathered ...

All but two House Republicans voted this afternoon to pass the party’s sprawling bill to extend tax cuts and slash social ...

In a 218-to-214 vote, the House of Representatives passed a sweeping bill that extends tax cuts and slashes social safety-net ...

The U.S. spy chief, who built her political identity opposing military intervention, is falling in line after the bombing of ...

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Monday to lift the U.S. sanctions on Syria after the fall of the Assad regime. Follow Newsweek's live blog.

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

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 ...