Since the Assad regime fell after more than 50 years in power, the extent of Syria’s cultural isolation is becoming clear.

The trailer has been met with enthusiasm, as people express excitement over a cinema industry without the censorship and ...

At the busy Marjah Square in central Damascus, Rateb Farah, 25, peddles Syrian pounds in stacks on a cardboard box. Sitting ...

A prison in Syria holds about 4,500 members of the Islamic State group who have been there for years without trial.

Droubi, the wife of Syria's newly appointed interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, have sparked wide interest in Syria's new ...

In Arabic, Assad means “lion,” although that wasn’t his real name. Hafez, Bashar’s father, had adopted it to look strong. Hasan was born in the northeastern Syrian city of Manbij, 18 years before the ...

Sham, are refusing to respond to the social and political demands of former President Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite minority, ...

Syria's former President Bashar Al-Assad fled to Moscow when rebel forces captured Damascus after a stunning sweep across the ...

After the exodus of most Syrian Jews, a few remain in the country they have called home for centuries. The New Arab finds out ...

The Paris-born, Damascus-raised director Soudade Kaadan reflects on life under Assad – and looks ahead with hope to a future ...

A car bomb on Monday killed 15 people in the northern Syrian city of Manbij where Kurdish forces are battling Turkey-backed ...

Six years ago, at the time of the first Trump administration’s Muslim ban and its initial round of vicious anti-immigrant policies, I visited a refugee ...