DAMASCUS, Syria—The Syrian factions that toppled President Bashar Assad last month named an Islamist former rebel leader as the country’s interim president on Wednesday in a push to project a ...

(CNN) — A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved in suppressing the protests that started the 2011 uprising has been detained inside Syria, according to state news ...

When good is bad. The News/FileIn recent years, Pakistani banks have been posting exceptional profits, while the rest of the economy has been... The writer is a former managing partner of a ...

A Russian delegation arrived in Damascus on Tuesday, marking the first official visit to Syria by Russian officials since the ousting of former President Bashar al-Assad in December. Al-Assad ...

More than 6 million Syrians have fled the country since 2011, when an uprising against the regime of Bashar Assad transformed into a 13-year civil war. Most ended up in neighboring countries such ...

A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk outside a morgue in Damascus. Her head wrapped in a scarf, she rocked back ...

Ali Abunimah, executive director of The Electronic Intifada. [Photo: Ali Abunimah] Ali Abunimah, the executive director of the Chicago-based Electronic Intifada, was arrested and detained by Swiss ...

Ali Abunimah – the executive director of online publication Electronic Intifada which calls itself “Palestine’s weapon of mass instruction” – was arrested by Swiss police on Saturday ...

Some European Union sanctions on Syria will be lifted as part of a broader EU move to help stabilise Damascus after the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad in December, France’s foreign minister ...

ALBAWABA - On Friday, many social media accounts claimed that Maher Assad, brother of former Syrian President Bashar Assad, will return to Syria causing chaos in the Syrian coastal cities.

Dressed in a crisp grey suit and red tie, Khalid Khalif (65) surveys the pile of rubble strewn in front of the crumbling structure that once housed his family’s ...