Assad, who wielded fear and force over Syria for more than two decades, fled the country under the cover of night — and a ...

While the Assads lived in luxury, most Qardaha residents — many, like Assad, members of the Alawite minority sect — survived ...

As those in the lucrative Captagon network move aside, how will the new leaders stop any criminals waiting in the wings to ...

Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez, ruled Syria for more than half a century but how did one family achieve and maintain ...

Jamil Hassan, referred to as "the butcher" by people who lived on his street, is among the senior regime figures who have ...

The toppling of Bashar Assad has raised tentative hopes that Syrians might live peacefully and as equals after a half century ...

Former Syrian regime security forces have been handing in their weapons to the rebel-linked transitional government in the ...

"I believe there will be violent fighting, the end of which we do not know," a top Syrian Democratic Council official told ...

The first U.S. diplomats to visit Syria since President Bashar Assad's ouster earlier this month are in Damascus to hold ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he would enquire about the whereabouts of Austin Tice, the American journalist missing ...

When Israel seized the strategic Golan Heights from Syria in 1967, many families were separated by a buffer zone created ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin promised to ask former Syrian President Assad for help in obtaining information on American ...