Comics had already been trying to foster stand-up in Syria before Bashar al-Assad’s fall. Now, they are telling jokes in a ...

Syria's new government sent in security reinforcements and imposed curfews on a coastal area after major clashes with ...

When Sunni rebels toppled Bashar al-Assad last December, they vowed to form an inclusive Syrian government by March. Sunnis comprise around 75 percent of Syria with the remaining 25 percent made up of ...

Syrian forces battle Alawite insurgents for a second day as unrest spreads, with over 120 reported killed in the biggest ...

Now to Syria - many things have changed there since the Regime of Bashar al-Assad fell in December. NPR's Jane Arraf climbed on board the victory train in Damascus. It was once a propaganda tool for ...

and as Syrians celebrated the end of Bashar al-Assad's regime, she kept seeing one man's face everywhere. She wanted to know ...

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) ARRAF: When Bashar al-Assad's repressive regime fell ... he ripped down all the propaganda posters. He's 74 years old, and he still has big plans for what he calls the ...

The Syrian soccer player Abdel Basset Al-Sarout became the poster child for the Syrian revolution with his iconic protest anthems. In death, he has become its saint. But he didn't do it alone.

Syrian soccer player Abdel Basset al-Sarout became the poster child for the Syrian ... against Syria's autocratic Assad regime. Only now, with ruler Bashar al-Assad forcibly ousted last December ...