Many Syrians remain apprehensive about how religious minorities, including Christians, will be treated in a new political reality being established by a Sunni militia that is still listed as a terror organization by the U.

After the Assad family’s half-century rule in Syria, regional officials are forced to think through the contours of a post-Assad world.

The fall of the Assad government in Syria took almost everybody by surprise and has created uncertainty for competing foreign interests that had established lines of control most assumed were frozen in the region.

President Bashar Assad was reported to have fled to Russia, a close ally, and been given asylum. Nabih Bulos is the Middle East bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times. Since 2012, he has covered the aftermath of the “Arab Spring” revolution as well as the Islamic State’s resurgence and the campaign to defeat it.

The regime of Bashar al-Assad has collapsed. He has fled Damascus for Moscow, leaving Syria’s rebels – diverse in tribe, race, and religion – in control. Torture chambers like those at Mezzeh and Sednaya are being opened,

Assad's regime is starting to sink in for Syrians, who are as excited as they are uncertain about what comes next for their country. Redmond Shannon looks at the scramble to find people believed to be missing in Syria's underground prisons,