Assad, the language of authority has changed in Syria. Yet these new titles (“Emir,” “Branch Emir” or “Sheikh of the group") ...

The Syrian Assad regime fell on December 8, 2024. A new government has come to power. The Ahmed al-Shara’a government in Syria is opposed to Iran and sympathetic to countries that oppose Tehran.

The Assad family ruled Syria for over five decades. A Reuters series reveals how the country transformed after the dictatorship’s end.

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 ...

A Reuters investigation has found the new president's brother, Hazem al-Sharaa, along with a sanctioned Australian are in ...

Upon his father's death in 2000, Assad -- who had risen to the rank of colonel in the Syrian army -- had already consolidated support in the military and the Baath political party, according to a ...

Staff say 17 members of the Damascus fire department were imprisoned during Syria's civil war, between 2011 and mid-2024. Nine of them died behind bars, according to one of the former regime ...

Bashar al-Assad’s regime detained more than a million people during the Syrian war. Saydnaya was the regime’s most notorious prison. In a video drawn from the documentary ‘Syria’s Detainee ...

Second, if the U.S. needed only about 1,400 soldiers (though usually under 1,000 since 2020) to assist in detaining tens of thousands of prisoners and fight 2,500 ISIS soldiers across both Syria ...

Among Syria’s minorities, two key factors make the Alawites most vulnerable to mass violence in post-Assad Syria. The first factor is that, like the Druze, Alawites have their own distinct ...

During Syria’s 13-year civil war, the Assad regime killed tens of thousands of civilians to stamp out opposition. Some of the bodies were dumped into trenches like this one at the Najha cemetery.

Syria’s uncertain future under jihadist-turned-statesman Ahmad al-Sharaa. FRONTLINE examines Syria’s uncertain future under jihadist-turned-statesman Ahmad al-Sharaa. After the fall of Bashar ...