Syrian producer Mohammad al-Shebli was helping to translate the anguished messages scrawled on cell walls by prisoners of the brutal Assad regime made a heart-wrenching discovery.

The jaw-dropping footage shows Mohammad al-Shebli inside one of the Damascus prisons with the Wall Street Journal as he translates the words of despair, hope, and faith scribbled along the walls ...

In a stunning turn of events, Syrian Islamist rebels have seized control of Damascus, forcing President Bashar al-Assad to flee to Russia. Amid the chaos, rebels uncovered an abandoned garage ...

Barbara Plett reports for the BBC that Bashar al-Assad officially becomes president of Syria today. Al-Assad takes the oath before parliament as president of Syria after winning an overwhelming ...

Once hailed as a Western-friendly reformer, Bashar al-Assad transformed into one of the world’s most brutal autocrats. From chemical weapons attacks to Russian military backing, this is the ...

It was after Bashar al-Assad violently clamped down on protesters in 2011 that Syria was plunged into a 13-year civil war, in the course of which 500,000 people are thought to have been killed.

Images of Bashar al-Assad and his family were emblematic of the dynasty’s grip on Syria. Though remnants linger after the regime’s ouster, the removal of the once ubiquitous relics has offered ...