Amid the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War and talks with Israel, Hafez al-Assad's top priority was ...

AS NEWS OF the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime and the dictator’s flight spread over the weekend, many Syrians rushed to the public squares to celebrate. In Damascus, women draped in the ...

The security forces of the new Syrian authorities, which toppled the Assad government late last year, had been looking for Shaar and "raided sites where he had been hiding in the past few days ...

Damascus (AFP) – A former minister under ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has turned himself in, the interior ministry said Tuesday, making him one of the highest-profile figures captured ...

The Syrian whistleblower known as Caesar, who documented countless cases of human rights abuses during the time of the Bashar al-Assad government, revealed himself as First Lieutenant Farid al ...

Al-Madh'an recounted how he leaked documents exposing torture and killings in prisons of the Assad regime, which the Syrian opposition toppled on Dec. 8. Originally from Daraa, he worked as the ...

Two months after the dramatic fall of Bashar Assad’s regime, Syria stands at a definitive juncture. The country, ravaged by years of brutal conflict, now faces the daunting task of rebuilding ...

Referencing Israeli violations of the 1974 ceasefire deal with Syria, he pledged that Damascus would abide by that agreement, and contended that the downfall of the Assad regime had ended what ...

Russia’s attitude toward the new Syrian government has “improved significantly” since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad in December, and Damascus is weighing Moscow’s demands ...