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Syria’s new administration has stepped up its campaign to track down and arrest members of the ousted Assad dictatorship, signaling that it would act with a heavy hand against people it claims ...

BEIRUT (AP) — The wife and daughter of one of deposed Syrian president Bashar Assad ’s cousins were arrested Friday at the Beirut airport, where they attempted to fly out with allegedly forged ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. With the sudden collapse of the al-Assad regime in Syria, after thirteen years ...

A group of combatants still loyal to deposed President Bashar al-Assad reportedly killed 14 rebel police officers in the rural areas of Tartous province, authorities reported on Thursday.

Syria’s new government is searching for a senior official from the Assad dictatorship and for military forces loyal to the ousted president. By Adam Rasgon Security forces for Syria’s new ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec. 24 (UPI) --The ouster of Syrian President Bashar Assad has ended Iran's 40-year dominance and quest for hegemony in the region, further weakened his allies in Lebanon and ...

In the 13 years since opposition groups in Syria began working to depose the family dictatorship presided over by Bashar al-Assad, it is fair to say that he had few allies in the halls of Congress ...

For more than five decades, Assad’s presidency and his father’s rule before that were marred by human rights violations, including mass imprisonments, torture and disappearances. The U.S ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Hundreds of former Syrian soldiers on Saturday reported to the country's new rulers for the first time since Bashar Assad was ousted to answer questions about whether they ...