A big question mark looms large over the future of Russian air and naval bases on the Mediterranean coast in Syria after President Bashar al-Assad fled to Moscow in face of a swift rebel offensive.

In the fall, Israel reoriented much of its efforts ... running as they captured Damascus and pushed out President Bashar al-Assad. Iran's forces had been in Syria propping up Assad since civil ...

The fall of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, after 13 years of brutal war, should be an unequivocal cause for celebration. Assad ruled through torture, fear, and violence, crushing dissent while ...

A man looks at photos of disappeared people at Marjeh Square, known as Martyrs' Square, in Damascus, Syria, in January. (Photos by Salwan Georges/The Washington Post) Neighbors and colleagues ...

The memories returned last month as I watched images of joyous Syrians in the streets of Damascus, Aleppo and other cities, celebrating the fall of dictator Bashar al-Assad. Thank goodness Assad ...

Empty shoes and fallen pedestals, as Syria reels and rebuilds from the rapid fall of the family who ruled this country with an iron fist for half-a-century. In Latakia, the homeland of the Assad's ...

The fall of Assad has opened up the possibility of bringing a camera to document the very place where he suffered terrible abuse. “I need to go and film myself inside this torture facility ...

A group of U.S. officials are in Syria's capital for the first time in more than 10 years seeking information on American citizens who disappeared under the Assad regime, among other things.

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 Tsar Vladimir’s rotting kingdom. This means that Putin ...

The fall of Syria's leader in December opened the ... of the true scale of killings under former president Bashar al-Assad. On this episode of The Sunday Story, NPR's Ruth Sherlock takes us ...