Under the previous dynastic regime, Syria went from a homeland for all to a "real estate registry" for the al-Assad family.

A May survey by Etana found that only 21 percent of Alawites said they felt safe under the current authorities, compared with ...

Federal prosecutors claim Samir Ousman Alsheikh was singularly focused on the political prisoners to bolster his reputation ...

It's been a little over a year since the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria ended a 14-year civil war. More than 1.3 million Syrians have returned home since then, according to the UN refugee agency, ...

A Syrian prison warden screams at a group of chained, crouching inmates in a harrowing scene from one of several Ramadan television series this year that tackle the era of ...

The Middle East war that began on February 28 with joint US-Israeli strikes in Iran entered day 11 on Tuesday.Releasing an o ...

After a day of conflicting signals about when the war against Iran might end, President Trump struck a belligerent tone ...

Iran's clerical leadership chose confrontation over compromise in appointing Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his father, Ali ...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed during US and Israeli strikes after serving for 36 years as the Islamic Republic’s second ...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who assembled theocratic power in Iran over the decades as its supreme leader and sought to turn it ...