As Syria’s new Islamist rulers reshape the way schools teach the nation’s history, students struggle to navigate the traumas ...

Assad’s regime on December 8 has put Syria in the spotlight once again. Following over a decade of conflict, the killing of ...

A colossal statue of Hafez al-Assad was once a powerful symbol of Syria’s ruling regime, looming over the Damascus-Aleppo highway. Now, like that regime, it is toppled, and Syrians have been visiting ...

Four members of the Islamic State, including two senior leaders, were killed in an airstrike carried out by Iraqi aircraft in the Hamrin Mountains in eastern Iraq, security officials said on Saturday.

What's it like to live under the rule of the extremist group known as the Islamic State, or ISIS? WSJ looks at the situation ...

The fall of longtime strongman Bashar al-Assad has created a power vacuum that threatens some of the United States' ...

Since the fall of President Bashar Assad regime, tensions across the Middle East have continued to remain high.

At the same time the United States doubled the number of troops in Syria. Now there are two thousand American soldiers scattered in several bases on the Iraq border with Syria helping the Kurds keep ...

Haunting pictures ... to eliminate Syria’s remaining chemical weapons, other actors in the country may not. The terrorist organization known as the Islamic State (or ISIS), which used crude and ...

Syria’s transition has been surprisingly smooth but it’s only been a few weeks since Assad fled the country and his administration and forces melted away. The insurgents who ousted Assad are rooted in ...

After Pope Francis prayed on Christmas Day for Syrian Christians facing uncertainty amid the country's regime change, the leader of the Catholic Church in neighboring Iraq said the toppling ... all ...

The move sparked debate about possible change in Iraq. Bashar al-Assad had a year earlier inherited the presidency of Syria and its Baath party from ... Council in Baghdad on July 13, 2003. (Getty ...