Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez, ruled Syria for more than half a century but how did one family achieve and maintain ...

The downfall of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria surprised even the opposition, led by Abu Mohammad al-Jolani's Hayat Tahrir ...

Demonstrators took to the streets across Syria on Tuesday to protest the burning of a Christmas tree, two weeks after the ...

In Syria's northwestern port town of Latakia, Christian worshippers attending Mass on Sunday at St. George Greek Orthodox ...

Few could bear to look long at his face, with its sunken, sorrowful eyes so full of pain – but when Mazen al-Hamada spoke, ...

Syria’s constitution requires the president to be Muslim. The constitution also allows for the respect and protection of ...

Many from ethnic minorities are fleeing Syria after Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime was deposed on the weeekend ...

Syria has a new interim government, but there is concern about how it will govern following contradictory remarks. Some groups, including women's rights advocates, are already testing the terrain.

The toppling of Bashar Assad has raised tentative hopes that Syrians might live peacefully and as equals after a half century ...

With the fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad over the weekend and a new White ... rebuilding an Iranian government based on separation of religion and state, gender equality, abolition of the ...

WASHINGTON - Republican and Democratic U.S. senators say it is too soon to consider lifting sanctions on Syria following the ...