“I saw him and said my goodbyes,” he said. His gaze lingered on the blackened body of Sami Chaeeb, whose teeth were bared and whose eye sockets were empty. It looked as if he had died screaming. “He ...

Assad’s government has lost the support of its people, and, therefore, "fell faster than expected," Syria’s new transitional Prime Minister Mohammed al-Bashir said ...

Republican Representative Nancy Mace called the police on a transgender activist for physically attacking her. But eyewitnesses say that’s nowhere close to what happened.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a speech Wednesday that the U.S. and Israel were behind the fall of former President Bashar Assad.

Insurgents set fire to the tomb of Syria’s former President Hafez Assad in his hometown in the northwest. Hafez Assad had ruled Syria for 30 years until his death in 2000, when his son, Bashar, ...

Assad, was driven from power and the country, NBC News' Richard Engel got an inside look at the palace where Assad lived in luxury.

Rep. Susan Wild (Pa.), the top Democrat on the House Ethics Committee, was absent from the panel’s meeting last week after being traced as the source of leaks to the press regarding the investigation ...

The Biden and Trump national security teams have come to an understanding that they have no choice but to work together as ...

Sham, the leading rebel force, must work to allay public fears that it will not seek to replace Assadism with its own form of absolute rule.

But for years now he has led a group of rebels in southern Syria that shared HTS’s opposition to Mr Assad, though not the group’s Islamism. The commander has spent much of his life fighting the ...

Rebel forces in Syria captured the capital Damascus and toppled the regime of President Bashar Assad in a lightning-quick ...

On Wednesday, at Sednaya, a political prison in Syria, hundreds of people prowled the grounds. It was the third day after an astonishing rebel offensive deposed Bashar al-Assad, who had ruled as a ...