Syria’s 54-year dictatorship under Hafez al-Assad and his son Bashar, now exiled in Russia, was one of the world’s most despised regimes.

When Syrian rebels roared into Damascus after a lightning advance on the capital, they exalted in their triumph over ...

Syria’s minority Alawite community is gripped by terror as reports spread of killings and disappearances under the country’s new Islamist rulers.

Venezuela’s political crisis has reached a boiling point that might affect the United States’ economy, migration policies and border stability, experts say ...

Assad's uncle, Rifaat al-Assad, left the country via Beirut airport around a week ago, after rebels overthrew his nephew.

The wife and daughter of one of deposed Syrian president Bashar Assad ’s cousins were arrested Friday at the Beirut airport, ...

Assad, an uncle of the ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad charged in Switzerland with war crimes over the bloody suppression of a revolt in 1982, has flown from Beirut to Dubai in recent days, two ...

We haven’t really seen this kind of machinery of death, or anything like it, since the Nazis,” one US-based investigator said ...

The Palestinian Health Ministry says at least eight people were killed by Israeli military operations in the northern West ...

Nearly two weeks after the ouster of his son, Bashar Assad, people streamed in to take photos ... scattered incidents of ...

Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez, ruled Syria for more than half a century but how did one family achieve and maintain ...