So, when the feared Mukhabarat, or Syrian intelligence, got wind of the graffiti and saw the names written nearby, “they arrested everyone who had written their name on the school wall ...

F or miles around, as far as the eye can see, the eastern suburbs of Damascus are a sea of undulating rubble and skeletal ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Clashes broke out in a suburb of the Syrian capital early Tuesday between local gunmen belonging to the minority Druze sect and pro-government fighters, leaving at least ...

By the time I was 17, I fled Syria without my family, fearing the Mukhabarat. When I arrived in the United States, telling the story of Syria was no easier: My country became the subject of ...