Syria’s future depends on a historic undertaking: facilitating the return of Syrian refugees to their homes in a country ...

Syria's new interim government is widely supported. But observers remain cautious over details for the country's democratic future. Is the political program inclusive enough to put Syria's feet back ...

In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged Assad’s rule. Tens of thousands of people were killed by the government’s ...