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

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

Supporting Assad, himself an Alawite, was a matter not of loyalty or politics for this community, the regime insisted, but of ...

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

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, ...

After insurgents toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad this month, many senior officials and members of his dreaded ...

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

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.

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

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