Directors, writers and actors who had to appease censors in the regime of former Syrian President Bashar Assad, now face a ...

I kept this story in my head," novelist Nisar Abasa, 80, told dpa. "I just knew that one day before I die I can publish it." ...

Like many Syrians, I'd only ever known the country under the rule of Assad and his father Hafez, who had been in power from ...

Syrian president Bashar Assad was meeting the Queen today, after publicly rebuffing a call from Tony Blair to shut down Palestinian terror organisations operating in ...

Ousted Syrian ruler used private jet to move cash, valuables, and documents to Abu Dhabi, sources say Plane made four flights in last days of Assad's regime, the last one from Russian base Jet carried ...

As his enemies closed in on Damascus, Bashar al-Assad, who ruled over Syria with an iron fist for 24 years, used a private jet to spirit away cash, valuables and confidential documents mapping the ...

As his enemies closed in on Damascus, Bashar al-Assad, who ruled over Syria with an iron fist for 24 years, used a private jet to spirit away cash, valuables and confidential documents mapping the ...

How many actors today would do that? It takes tremendous self-confidence. Indeed, it does. Eastwood was on a generational run at that time, with movies like Unforgiven, A Perfect World, and In the ...

Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced that the number of refugees returning home to Syria exceeded 915,000 in eight years, noting a surge in returns after Assad’s fall, at more than 175,000 in ...

Now, however, there are fresh concerns: while Syria under Assad saw political debates repressed, some worry that repression by clerics could end up forbidding some forms of art seen as anti-religious.

A rare sunny day in early spring had me in the mood for comfort food while walking along High Street in the English town of Newmarket. The eclectic food focus of Potro Lounge, the local outpost of ...