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

It took Assad’s regime to fall and Putin to accept it meekly for the West to appreciate that things weren’t all that rosy in ...

Syrians who remained loyal to him through years of civil war fume that he left without a word. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Syrian regime’s collapse came more quickly than the rebels had dreamed — the circumstances were both serendipitous and ...

We were not prepared for what we were going to see,” says Human Rights Watch researcher Hiba Zayadin, who recently visited one mass execution site turned mass grave in Syria, following the sudden fall ...

In the villages above the Syrian port city of Tartus they once hailed the sons who died fighting in Bashar al-Assad's service ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday he had not spoken to US President-elect Donald Trump in over four years, but ...

A shocking image of the Syrian 'prisoner' who was discovered locked up Damascus prison by journalists proves that he was ...

Syria's new leader is saying that he will dissolve the many rebel factions there and absorb them into the new ministry of defense. That new leader is Ahmed al-Sharaa. And if he can achieve unity, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military has transported out of Syria an American who had disappeared seven months ago into former ...

BEIRUT (AP) — After insurgents toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad this month, many senior officials and members of his ...