Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on radical Islamic theology now sit openly in Damascus bookstores, no longer traded in secret after iron-fisted ruler Bashar Al Assad's ouster.

David McCloskey’s third spy thriller, “The Seventh Floor,” is as gripping and suspenseful as his two earlier novels.

Damascus, SANA-Under the patronage of President Bashar al-Assad, vice-President Najah al-Attar inaugurated on Wednesday the 29 th edition of international Book Fair at al-Assad National Library in ...