U.S. officials said sanctions against targets such as its central bank would end, but they would remain on Syria’s former ...

Christians in Nigeria and Syria were hit with exceptionally brutal jihadi attacks on two consecutive weekends this month.

Access to Syria for Western journalists was always complicated. Now, journalists are entering the country by the hundreds – and wondering what the future of press freedom will look like under a ...

A Visual Guide to Syria’s Long Struggle for Freedom Country had been ruled by outside powers and dictators for centuries before its revolution was realized ...

Asaad Al Shibani, Foreign Minister in Syria's transitional government, has spoken of how his country has “gained its freedom” from former president Bashar Al Assad, but that many challenges ...

Syrians rally around their old/new flag, a symbol of pride, hope, and freedom that rode into Damascus with the rebels who overthrew the Assad regime. It adorns everything.

Syria's oppressive regime has fallen, ending decades of tyranny and sparking hope for a future built on justice, dignity, and human rights. Following the resounding fall of the Syrian regime, Syria ...

So far Syria has had 50 years of fascism and one day of its opposite. If it can string together more such days—perhaps a month, and dare one hope for even a year—the previous decade of ...

Syria’s deeply flawed interim Constitution should be replaced with one that reflects our values: freedom, equality and self-governance.

For more than five decades, Syria has lived under a repressive regime that has made freedom of expression a distant dream. Under Bashar al-Assad, expression was curtailed by repressive laws and strict ...

ALEPPO, Syria—Late one January night, two balaclava-clad security officers with Syria’s new government were speeding through the streets of Aleppo in pursuit of a man who had been spotted ...

Since the fall of the Assad regime, a sense of freedom has slowly been spreading across many sectors in Syria. Artists are slowly regaining their freedom of expression, with more and more stand-up ...