Syria’s parliamentary elections on October 5 raised alarm flags for me on several grounds. First, they were not conducted on the basis of a direct vote. Sixty “constituencies” were established to ...

When the Syrian civil war broke out in 2011, thousands of Syrian refugees began to flood into neighboring Jordan. By the end of the following year, the number of refugees had reached 150,000; a year ...

The Syrian civil war had been relatively quiet in recent years, experiencing only minor skirmishes and no major changes in control. This changed abruptly when rebels took advantage of President ...

Syrian President Bashar Assad was ousted from power early on Sunday in a stunning bloodless coup by Islamist rebels who took control of Damascus, the Syrian capital after a 13-year civil war that has ...

Fleeing a civil war, Syria's refugees have nearly doubled in the past year. — -- The number of Syrians fleeing their war-torn homeland for neighboring countries has passed the 4 million mark, ...

On Dec. 8, after nearly 54 years in power and 13 years of war, the Syrian civil war came to an end. And with it, the fall of the Assad family’s rule. For many Syrian students who call the University ...

Election marks landmark moment in country’s post-war transition, but vote goes largely to Sunni male representatives.

Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa has arrived in New York to attend the U.N. General Assembly. This marks the first visit by a Syrian president in nearly six decades.

In the first elections since the Assad regime was ousted, there was no popular vote and women and minorities won few seats.