French judges have issued arrest warrants for former Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad and six top aides for the killing and ...

The fall of Syria's leader in December opened the doors to a vast network of detention centers and prisons across the country, uncovering further evidence of the true scale of killings under former ...

When Bashar al-Assad was toppled in December, the iconography of posters, billboards and statues emblematic of his family’s brutal decades-long grip on the country also came down. The images of Assad ...

As Syria undergoes a precarious government transition under interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa following the ouster of Bashar al-Assad, now is a critical moment to hold members of the former regime ...

— -- President Bashar al-Assad of Syria is the center of attention in the aftermath of a United States airstrike against a Syrian air base where a chemical attack was initiated earlier this week.

A French court issued arrest warrants for Syria’s former president, Bashar al-Assad, alongside six other top former Syrian officials, over the assassination of two journalists during the bombardments ...

Vladimir Putin offering refuge to ex-Syrian tyrant Bashar al-Assad in Moscow is undermining Russia’s talks to keep its forces in the wartorn country, according to British defence chiefs. They believe ...

New data from the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) has found that asylum applications to the 27-nation bloc fell 23 percent during the first six months of 2025 after a significant drop in ...

Ms. Hunaidi is a Syrian writer who is working on a book about the disappearance of Samira al-Khalil. For 54 years, Syria existed in the shadow of a silence so profound, it swallowed entire lives. The ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad plans to make his first public speech since June on Saturday, but no one's really sure what he's going to say. Assad has never indicated even a willingness to talk ...

Before 2010, when the protests against Bashar al-Assad led to a civil war in the country, oil provided more than half of Syria's income.