There was an outpouring of grief for Mr. Hamada in Syria and around the world. He’d become a symbol of resilience and courage ...

Kateab, whose documentary For Sama won a Bafta, returns with a harrowing film about the apocalyptic natural disaster ...

Nobody had heard from Syrian activist Mazen al-Hamada after he was detained in Damascus in 2020. On Tuesday, his family ...

As those in the lucrative Captagon network move aside, how will the new leaders stop any criminals waiting in the wings to ...

The group’s leader Abu Mohammad al-Jolani — a Syrian Islamist militant labeled a terrorist by the U.S. since 2013 — was featured in our 2021 documentary The Jihadist. On Dec. 1, National ...

The stunning fall of the Syrian government early Sunday - a bloodless coup by Islamist rebels that ended the brutal 50-year ...

The documentary that followed, The Jihadist, investigated Jolani’s origins, his group, his fight with Assad and his ambitions for Syria. As the documentary reported, over most of two decades ...

It was a defining moment of the fall of the Syrian regime - rebels freeing inmates from the country's most notorious prison. A week on, four men speak to the BBC about the elation of their release, ...

After the fast moving events of the past week when rebels took major cities and gained control of Syria, today the extent of the brutality of the Assad regime was revealed by the liberation of a ...