In the port city of Latakia, Syria's new Islamist rulers have discovered a warehouse full of children's toys - at least at ...

The article explores why Syria, despite its early independence, was unable to establish a democracy, instead evolving into a ...

Backed by Iran and Russia, the regime led by Bashar al-Assad survived the revolutionary wave carried ... Egypt (February 2011), Libya (October 2011), and Yemen (February 2012). Saudi Arabia, Jordan, ...

Syria's new authorities have detained an Egyptian Islamist militant who fought against Bashar al-Assad's rule over threats he made to the government in Cairo, a Syrian interior ministry source and ...