Such an outcome would recreate the Assad regime’s use of the military as a narco-enterprise. As the United States considers the most effective ways to engage with Syria’s new rulers ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — The charred remains of at least 26 victims of the Bashar Assad government were located Tuesday by Syrian civil defense workers in two separate basements in rural Damascus.

winding road leading to what was once the family home of ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad just outside Latakia on Syria's Mediterranean coast. On either side of the road in the village of Burj ...

After all, at the start of the Arab Spring, when nationwide protests erupted in Syria demanding reforms, and later — when it became clear reforms weren’t coming — Mr. al-Assad’s ouster ...

Vladimir Putin offering refuge to ex-Syrian tyrant Bashar al-Assad in Moscow is undermining Russia’s talks to keep its forces ...

The warrant, issued on 20 January, names Assad as "commander-in-chief of the armed forces" in connection with a 2017 bombing in Deraa that killed Salah Abou Nabout, a 59-year-old Franco-Syrian and ...

At left is a vertical billboard of Assad. Trees and debris are seen at left. Anti-regime fighters drive past a picture of Syrian President ... jumped down into the pit and pulled bags of bones ...

The US Treasury Department has accused him of supplying the Syrian army's notorious Fourth Division -- headed by Assad's brother Maher -- including through the creation of a private security firm ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — A delegation of Russian officials arrived in Damascus on Tuesday for the first such visit to Syria since the fall of former President Bashar Assad. Assad, an ally of Moscow ...

Two French investigating magistrates have issued an arrest warrant against ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad for suspected complicity in war crimes, the second such move by France's judicial ...