Syrian courts have opened war crimes investigations against four senior officials from the former Assad regime, in the most ...

A Syrian commission for missing persons estimated that between 120,000 and 300,000 people have gone missing during more than ...

By bna Cairo bureau Syria's newly established National Authority for the Missing has warned that the number of people who ...

Dec. 9 (UPI) -- President Bashar al-Assad of Syria was ousted over the weekend by jihadist-led rebels and has fled to Russia, ending his family's five-decade rule of the Middle Eastern country.

The Assad government forcefully disappeared at least 3,700 children whose parents were disloyal to the regime. The figures ...

A group of bipartisan lawmakers met with Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus, part of a growing group in Congress ...

Bashar al-Assad has been the president of Syria since 2000, following the death of his father, Hafez al-Assad, who had ruled the country for nearly 30 years. Early Life And Education ...

Syria's foreign minister met with an Israeli delegation in Paris to discuss de-escalation and the situation in Druze-majority ...

Bashar al-Assad came to power in 2000 after his father’s death and spent the better part of 14 years fighting the civil war.

Bashar al-Assad, center, is seen during the closing session of the ruling Baath party congress in Damascus, Syria, in June 2000. (SANA/AP/File via CNN Newsource) ...

Syria will hold parliamentary elections in September, the head of a body tasked with organising the election process told state media Sunday.