A year ago, Bashar al-Assad, the president of Syria, was reeling from an entrenched insurgency and facing the prospect of war against the United States and its allies. After Syrian government ...

The war artist-reporter and founder of Action Syria returns to the streets of Damascus and Aleppo 12 years on from when he was last there. Here, he captures the stories of the people he meets and ...

The protagonist is a metaphor for Hafez Al Assad, father of Bashar Al Assad and his predecessor as Syrian leader. The movie ...

On the outskirts of Syria's capital Damascus, NBC News got a look at former President Bashar al-Assad's palaces.

Comics had already been trying to foster stand-up in Syria before Bashar al-Assad’s fall. Now, they are telling jokes in a liberated country, while warily eyeing the new government.