Here’s a look at the life of Bashar al-Assad, who was president of Syria from 2000 to 2024. Personal Birth date: September 11, 1965 Birth place: Damascus, Syria Father: Hafez Assad, late Syrian ...

Syrian authorities detained ex-security officer Rateb Fahd al-Hussein in Hama for alleged war crimes, as wider arrests of ...

It was the second known raid in northern Syria by US troops since former President Bashar al-Assad was ousted in December.

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

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

A pre-dawn U.S. military raid in northwestern Syria early on Wednesday targeted and killed a senior member of the Islamic ...

In US-brokered talks, Syria and Israel discussed restoring a 1974 ceasefire to de-escalate tensions following the fall of ...

New Islamist rulers are trying to destroy the drug empire that financed the former regime in Damascus. Can they succeed?

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

A U.S. military raid in northwestern Syria killed a senior Islamic State member, a potential ISIS leader. Conducted in Idlib ...

Assad regime secretly separated children of detainees from their parents, placing them in orphanages under false identities, ...

The 14 years under Assad’s authoritarian leadership has been brutal but now Syria is facing many other challenges, including ...