By the end of 2011, the Syrian Civil War had started, becoming a long-standing symbol of conflict in the Middle East.

This approach is further highlighted by UNESCO Director-General Audre Azoulay’s report on the safety of journalists and impunity for 2022-2023 ...

Syria is fractured by competing armies but who holds power and where may be shifting as the US eyes an exit.

Belarusian journalist Andrei Kuznechyk and an unnamed American citizen were among the three prisoners released in Belarus on Wednesday, according to officials. Kuznechyk, who U.S. officials had dubbed ...

Syria’s relations with Iran and Russia remain an open wound for the country’s people after the nations backed autocratic ...

The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the ...

While Moscow and Tehran want this deal to signal unity in defiance of the West, it’s also about shoring up losses in the wake ...

Assad fled to Russia, ending more than half a century ... Stories with the VOA News byline are the work of multiple VOA journalists and may contain information from wire service reports.

BBC News Russian journalists have been singled out, following earlier designations of Ilya Barabanov, Anastasia Lotareva, Andrey Kozenko, and Olga Ivshina. BBC News Global Director and BBC Deputy ...

For the past ten years, the Cairo office of Russian state media outlets RIA Novosti and Sputnik has centralised their international news coverage in  Arabic. These outlets capitalise on criticism of ...

on her history of defending Russian President Vladimir Putin, her past praise of National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, who shared sensitive intelligence with journalists in in 2013, and ...