Officials in Syria's caretaker government were left with a state in ruins. Some fear they aren't moving fast enough to fix it ...

A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved in suppressing the protests that started the 2011 ...

Decades of authoritarian rule have left Syria’s justice system ill-equipped to handle complex human rights cases. Thousands ...

In Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, and Yemen, Islamists joined the protests belatedly—but subsequently took ownership. Assad’s particular brutality militarized Syria’s initially peaceful uprising, justifying ...

And such support will have to come hard and fast: the lack of a speedy and visible economic recovery will fuel discontent and thus risk Syria’s transition toward an inclusive, pluralistic political ...

His detention comes after Syria’s newly inducted interim leader ... including Egypt and Tunisia. Najib was then head of the regime’s Political Security Branch in Deraa. The parents of the ...

While it’s unclear what exact political path Syria will take, the dilemmas the country faces are similar to the experiences ...

Over 2,400 Tunisian nationals are believed to have joined extremist groups in Syria, and their potential return is a growing ...