Over 2,400 Tunisian nationals are believed to have joined extremist groups in Syria, and their potential return is a growing ...

While it’s unclear what exact political path Syria will take, the dilemmas the country faces are similar to the experiences ...

Officials in Syria's caretaker government were left with a state in ruins. Some fear they aren't moving fast enough to fix it ...

A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved in suppressing the protests that started the 2011 ...

Assad’s final ouster appeared abrupt, it had its roots in Syria’s 2011 antigovernment protests, and Syrians will now face ...

The rebel offensive benefited from careful preparation and the support of Turkey, which occupies territory in Syria’s north ...

For more than a decade, Mr. al-Assad remained in power, employing vicious means to do so while enjoying an obscene amount of ...

Decades of authoritarian rule have left Syria’s justice system ill-equipped to handle complex human rights cases. Thousands ...

While some countries – Egypt and Tunisia – became democracies, albeit briefly, others, like Yemen, Libya and Syria, descended into violence. In the intervening years, political science ...