Bashar al-Assad is so confident in his grip on power, he lifts subsidies on petrol by a whopping 130% overnight.

A few years ago various actors were laying claim to the whole of Syria. They now spend months bickering over

Ghassan Aljibai, a Syrian writer and director who spent a decade in Hafez al-Assad’s prisons, describes how he felt when

Didn’t know this! Do you know who’s next to Assad in this photo from 2012? That’s Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, a Russian

Mudar Rifaat al-Assad—a criminal, the son of a criminal, the cousin of Syria’s dictator, and an active narcotics trafficker—is not

Syrian doctors and nurses in Turkish-controlled Syria complain about the stark discrimination they face in their own country, culminating in

Our interactive tool, which highlights all you need to know about individuals sanctioned by the EU and the US under

In light of today’s repatriation of 146 women and children from Syria to Tajikistan, I stumbled across this excellent paper

Don’t bother trying to understand the world if you don’t understand descriptive statistics. Many people will have you thinking that

In a huge effort involving the analysis of hundreds of videos, the Syrian Justice & Accountability Center (SJAC) documented a