Sectarian-driven killings of civilians this month displayed the government’s weak control over both its own forces and ...

The Globe and Mail is not publishing Majed’s family name out of concern ... territory inside Syria since the fall of Mr. al-Assad’s regime – that it stood ready to “defend” Syria ...

Syria has seen the worst outbreak of violence since the ousting of former President Bashar al-Assad late last year, after armed men descended on Alawite heartlands on Thursday in what Syrian ...

Al-Assad ruled Syria from 1971 until his death in 2000, and shared five children with Makhlouf, Bushra, Basil, Bashar, Majed and Maher. Makhlouf was born in 1930 to a powerful and wealthy family ...

“We never say no,” Qatar Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Majed Al-Ansari said in an ... The toppling of dictator Bashar al-Assad last weekend has brought a wave of joy for the long ...

Clashes between government security forces and supporters of ousted former President Bashar al-Assad have killed at least 311 people in Syria since Thursday, according to a monitoring group that ...

Majed Al Ansari, spokesperson for the Qatari ... The kingdom has been part of an Arab accommodation with Mr Al Assad, which started in the past three years but did not make much progress in ...

Samir al-Rifai reveals documented cases of missing Palestinian prisoners in Syrian regime prisons and details challenges ...

areas predominantly inhabited by the ethno-religious Alawite minority to which al-Assad belongs. For some analysis, we welcome Ziad Majed, Professor of Political Science at the American University ...