Beirut: Hafez al-Assad did not settle for ruling Syria with an iron grip—he also sought to control Lebanon, and he got his way. Throughout the 1980s, there was frequent talk of a second power center ...

Unidentified individuals broke into the mausoleum of former Syrian president Hafez Assad — father of Bashar Assad — in the city of Qardaha in the northwestern part of the country and removed his ...

For many years, Ragheed Tatari's family assumed he had died in Syria's hellish prison system — LOUAI BESHARA Syrian fighter pilot Ragheed Tatari was 26 when he was arrested. Now 70, the country's ...

A Paris court will give its verdict Wednesday in a trial on money laundering charges for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's uncle, who amassed a fortune in France over several decades. A TV grab shows ...

At a meeting of the "Friends of Syria" in Paris, French François Hollande and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered some of the strongest threats so far against Syria and the nations that are ...

Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday afternoon that at least 1,429 people were killed in the recent chemical weapons attack in Syria, including at least 426 children — evidence meant to bolster ...

(Reuters) -Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa's hopes of stitching Syria back together under the rule of his Islamist-led government are complicated by the country's mix of sectarian and ethnic groups.

Grave consequences await the West if Trump follows through with normalizing relations with Jolani’s new regime. President Donald Trump has decided to lift American sanctions on Syria. The sanctions ...

STORY: For the first time in three decades, Rabbi Joseph Hamra and his son Henry read from a Torah scroll in a synagogue in the heart of Syria's capital Damascus. The pair have been planning this ...