Bel Trew meets some of the many gathered in the capital Damascus, hearing tales of hope – and a recognition of the work ahead ...

This piece was first published on CounterPunch in March 2021. When the Arab Spring came to the Middle East ten years ago, ...

In Culiacán residents lock themselves indoors as night falls. Bars and restaurants are deserted. Troops patrol the streets.

For more than half a century, the Assad dynasty appeared to have an impregnable hold over Syria. Relying on a formidable security apparatus, brutal use of force, and powerful allies such as Russia, ...

The goal, said Avi Dichter, an Israeli minister, “is to establish facts on the ground” as Islamist rebels seek to cement ...

The deputy executive director of the U.N. World Food Program has been on whirlwind visits to hotspots in the Middle East and ...

Israel carried out a wave of heavy airstrikes across Syria as its troops advanced deeper into the country, a Syrian ...

The jihadi rebels who toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad say they want to build a unified, inclusive country. But after 14 ...

Since then, as the war intensified, the prison became, by all accounts, even more terrible. In 2021, the Syrian Observatory ...

The rapid fall of Syria’s autocratic ruler, Bashar al-Assad, this past weekend was one of the most consequential developments ...

At least 26 enslaved people died on the Tennessee plantation of President Andrew Jackson before the end of the Civil War ...

The United Nations and human rights organizations have faced challenges in counting all those killed and missing in the ...