On December 8, Syria appeared to turn a page on dictatorship. After 14 years of brutality under former president Bashar al-Assad, the country ostensibly stood at the threshold of liberty.

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Syrian security forces arrested a former commander in the ousted regime of Bashar al-Assad on Thursday for involvement in war crimes in Syria, the Interior Ministry said. A ministry statement said ...

March 8 (UPI) --More than 1,000 have died since Thursday amid fighting between Syrian government forces and supporters of former President Bashar al-Assad, a monitoring organization announced.

DAMASCUS — In the days after the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, rescue workers began to receive calls about the trail of bodies that his loyalists had left in people’s homes.

In several others, bodies can be seen amassed on streets and in mass graves in areas across Latakia, a former stronghold of ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. A sweeping response from ...

Those who refused were put in jails," he said, adding that any high-level officers in Assad’s forces had fled the country. While much of Syria was happy to see the ouster of Bashar al-Assad ...

Since the ouster of former President Bashar al-Assad in December, about 1.2 million Syrians have gone home, including 885,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) and 302,000 refugees, according to ...