Assad’s regime was toppled. Its reopening is also seen as a sign of improving ties between Baghdad and Damascus.

Premieres Tuesday, June 10, 2025 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Investigating the Assad regime's arrest, torture and ...

At previous moments of tension over decades of rivalry with Western foes, Iran was able to project power across the Middle ...

Jordan, Syria and Lebanon reopened their airspace on Saturday, a day after imposing closures as Israel and Iran traded fire.

"The Caesar law targeted the Assad regime and with the fall of the regime it must be permanently repealed," Wilson said in a ...

The government of Bashar al-Assad made the media in Syria a tool of its propaganda. It arrested and intimidated writers and journalists who opposed the official line. Books were censored and ...

California Democrat Sen. Adam Schiff discusses Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard: SEN. ADAM SCHIFF: So today I want to continue in a series of profiles of Trump cabinet members, and ...

Documents reveal how Syria’s fallen government hid hundreds of abducted children during the country’s civil war.

More than 273,000 Syrians who fled their country's civil war to neighbouring Turkey have returned home since the fall of ...

Swiss politicians from across the political spectrum have called on the government to protect minorities in the face of ...

President Donald Trump revealed his sympathies for the brutal Syrian Dictator Bashar Al-Assad during the 2016 Republican Primary debates.

John Simpson analyses Donald Trump’s decision to deploy troops to tackle anti-ICE protests in California, and examines the ...