Hayan Hadid was 18 when soldiers arrested him in his pyjamas and took him for execution in Syria's Hama in 1982, during one ...

On a street corner in the old town of Damascus, rugged men with rifles stare sharply at passers-by. Despite their appearance, ...

Donald Trump’s pick to oversee 18 intelligence agencies with a $100 billion spy budget is facing renewed scrutiny over an ...

Over 2,400 Tunisian nationals are believed to have joined extremist groups in Syria, and their potential return is a growing ...

He became president in 2000 after the death of his father, Hafez al-Assad ... the minimum age for candidates from 40 to 34, Bashar al-Assad’s age at the time. He was elected unopposed; the ...

The leader of the former rebel group that toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad has been named the country’s interim ...

Bashar al-Assad consistently portrayed himself as a ... adding that her daughter never knew her father. "I've never had the slightest compensation." Razan quickly regains composure before voicing ...

Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on radical Islamic theology now sit openly in Damascus bookstores, no ...

to the family of colonel Hafez al-Assad, the father of Bashar. The political and cultural landscape of the Middle East, post-Baath, is marked by blighted zones that might otherwise have been a ...

At the bottom of Nisrine Ezzedine's garden, cement blocks mark the graves of her husband, son and nephew, all killed by foreign ...

Saudi Arabia's top diplomat said Friday the kingdom was seeking to help Syria's new authorities secure the lifting of ...

Syria's de facto leader Ahmad al-Sharaa has asked Russia to hand over Bashar al-Assad, according to Reuters report. A high-level Russian delegation in Syria expressed support for the country's ...