Syria on Tuesday began the first trial of suspects in a wave of bloodshed in March during which pro-government fighters ...

After nearly 14 years of civil war, Syria's Assad regime crumbled in a stunning series of rebel advances culminating in the ...

Under the Syrian dictator’s rule, the wives and children of rebels were seized as leverage. Some are now speaking about their ...

Six months ago, the once seemingly impossible became reality: Syria's long-time ruler Bashar al-Assad was overthrown after years of brutal civil war. More than five decades of authoritarian rule by ...

From exile in France, Uthman and his team have assisted European prosecutors in charging former Syrian officials with war ...

Members of the security forces belonging to Syria's new authorities and supporters of former dictator Bashar al-Assad ...

Syrian human rights activist Ribal al-Assad tore into Europe for lifting sanctions against the nation’s new "terrorist" regime, which he warned is no better than his first cousin, ousted leader Bashar ...

U.S. personnel were injured in a ballistic missile attack on Al-Asad Air Base in Iraq on Saturday, two U.S. officials said. The attack was one of the largest-scale ballistic missile attacks to date ...

Syrian president Bashar al-Assad sat down with Charlie Rose on Sunday for an hour-long interview that aired in full Monday night on PBS. And while there was little surprising in the content of his ...

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 ...

1994 - Syrian President Hafez Assad’s oldest son and heir apparent, Basel, dies in a car accident. Second son Bashar, is called back from medical training in Britain and is groomed to take over his ...