Joseph and Michele Assad, former U.S. counter-terrorism officers, helped arrange for 25 families, 149 refugees in all including 62 children, to board a privately-chartered plane in the Kurdistan ...

Beyond delaying much-needed closure and reparations for survivors and victims’ families, a lack of accountability could ...

Shiite rituals for Ashoura in Damascus have drastically changed after the fall of Syria's former President Bashar Assad.

Syrian refugees, who fled to Lebanon more than a decade ago to escape war, violence and persecution, have slowly begun to return, encouraged by better conditions after President Bashar Assad's ouster.

In a village north of Damascus, the capital, a giant statue of the ousted leader’s father, former President Hafez al-Assad, was felled. The statues were carried away, possibly for scrap metal.

Clashes between government security forces and supporters of ousted former President Bashar al-Assad have killed at least 311 people in Syria since Thursday, according to a monitoring group that ...

A human rights group characterized the killings as executions and massacres, carried out in revenge against the Alawite community, which made up Assad's longtime base of support.