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

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

The Assad family's rule was among the most brutal in the region and its prison system, including feared sites such as ...

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

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

France's Court of Cassation Friday annulled a French arrest warrant against former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad as part of a probe into deadly 2013 chemical attacks during the country's civil war, ...

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

Shibani’s visit to Moscow and his meeting with both Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Russian President Vladimir Putin on July 31, Syrians on social media are asking whether al-Shibani ...

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

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

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