This year's World Cinema Dramatic Competition features three films all about characters on spiritual, physical, and sexual ...

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

The end of more than a decade of civil war in Syria and the fall of the Assad regime has given archaeologists around the ...

Iran holds tremendous sway inside Iraq despite the presence of US troops, setting up a tug-of-war for the incoming Trump ...

The December collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria was stunning. Not only did it mark the end of the Assad family’s ...

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

The United Nations refugee chief says some 200,000 refugees have returned to Syria from neighboring countries since the ...

Bad decisions — the kind that can be, if not reversed, at least remedied — are an essential part of adolescence: lapses that ...

The one telling note, issued early: We’re picking up Doe and Muna’s story in “England, 2014.” ...

"Brides," which premiered Friday at the Sundance Film Festival, depicts British teenagers venturing to become ISIS brides in ...

Sham, which overthrew the Assad regime last month, reflects rising U.S. alarm that ISIS could mount a resurgence.