On the slopes of Mount Qasyun which overlooks Damascus, a network of tunnels links a military complex, tasked with defending ...

The foreign ministers from Germany and France visited the notorious Sednaya prison near Damascus on Friday, a symbol of the ...

The fall of more than 60 years of Ba’ath Party rule in Syria — 50 of those years under the Assad family, father and son — is ...

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

Christians in Maaloula in western Syria have been living with an intensifying fear for their safety, exacerbated by a recent ...

Assad’s relatives have been arrested at Beirut airport with forged passports, while his uncle, who is wanted for war crimes, ...

Lebanese officials say the wife and daughter of one of deposed Syrian president Bashar Assad’s cousins have been arrested at ...

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 ...

Cliche has it that behind every great man stands a woman—and as it happens, the same also applies to murderous dictators.

Middle East and North Africa, marked by devastating wars and the dramatic fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria.

Assad’s father brutally crushed an uprising in Hama, creating a blueprint for repression. Decades later, Syrians can now ...

Syrian President Bashar Assad's ouster has ended Iran's 40-year dominance and quest for hegemony in the region, further ...