Syria’s leadership isn’t the only aspect of the country to be changing as a result of this month’s toppling of longtime ...

GEM has also heard the story of a gay man who was deported back into Syria from Turkey five months ago, and was only sent to ...

Assad's Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shia Islam whose members make up one of Syria's biggest religious minorities. Alawites ...

Earlier on Saturday, the ruling General Command named Asaad Hassan al-Shibani as foreign minister, SANA said. A source in the ...

The buffer zone between Syria and the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights was created by the U.N. after the 1973 Mideast war. A ...

Donald Trump’s US presidential election win, the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, and the Paris Olympics were among the news ...

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

A lightning rebel offensive early this month caught Syria’s ruling clan off guard. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fled to ...

Syria's new rulers have appointed Murhaf Abu Qasra, a leading figure in the insurgency which toppled Bashar al-Assad, as ...

At a Damascus intersection, young volunteers act as unofficial traffic cops after police assigned to the duty deserted their ...

President Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia on December 8, leaving behind many of his collaborators, some of whom sought refuge in neighbouring countries. According to two sources, the ousted president, ...

The leader of the rebel forces group that took back Damascus from Bashar al-Assad will now rule without fear of a $10 million ...