Syria: Why education and collaboration are key for stability
Despite protest over Syria's more "Islamic" curriculum changes, there are parallel priorities, observers say. After 14 years of war, millions of children remain out of school, and schools need to be ...
Syria’s children, having known only war, adjust to a sudden peace
As Syria’s new Islamist rulers reshape the way schools teach the nation’s history, students struggle to navigate the traumas ...
PBS10d
Syria’s once-empowered Alawite minority faces uncertain future after fall of Assad
As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both ...
NDTV26d
Bashar Al-Assad's Wife Files For Divorce, Wants To Return To UK: Report
Asma married Bashar al-Assad in December 2000. The couple has three children: Hafez, Zein, and Karim. Asma has reportedly sought to exile herself in London with her children since the Syrian ...
Phoenix New Times4d
Assad is gone. Now Arizona’s Syrian refugees mull whether to go back
Hundreds of Syrians came to Arizona to escape dictator Bashar al-Assad. After Assad's ouster, will Syria be home again?
NDTV23d
Bashar Al-Assad's Wife Asma Battling Leukemia, Has 50% Chance Of Survival: Report
Asma married Bashar al-Assad in December 2000. The couple has three children: Hafez, Zein, and Karim. Asma has reportedly sought to exile herself in London with her children since the Syrian ...
Assad loyalist tied to a tree and shot in the head in public execution
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said fighters shot Mazen Kneneh in the head on the street in Dummar, a suburb of ...
Syrians celebrate a month since Assad’s overthrow with revolutionary songs in Damascus
A packed concert hall in Damascus came alive this week with cheers as Wasfi Maasarani, a renowned singer and symbol of the ...
Syria Confronts an Immense Challenge: Justice for Assad Regime Crimes
The rebel alliance that took power has vowed to prosecute senior figures from the ousted government, but accountability will ...
New York Post26d
Kremlin scrambles to address claims that Bashar al-Assad’s glamorous wife is divorcing him so she can move back to London
Russia scrambled to shoot down claims that exiled dictator Bashar al-Assad’s London-born wife Asma filed for divorce and wants to leave with her children to the UK. Turkish media dropped a ...
Post-Assad, Damascus is coming back to life. But Syria’s artists fear a new clampdown under Islamist rule
With its chic galleries, dimly lit bars and smoky cafés, Damascus’ vibrant cultural scene is flourishing again. But will this ...
Ceasefire between Israel and Hamas will go into effect at 0630 GMT Sunday
This will pause the fighting after 15 months of war and see the release of dozens of hostages held by the militants in the ...