His father, Hafez al-Assad, had spent decades slowly tightening ... When her mother-in-law, Anisa Makhlouf, died in 2016, Asma embraced her status as the matriarch of the Assad family, and ...

More than a decade after being isolated by the Arab world for his brutal crackdown during Syria’s civil war, President Bashar ...

U.S. officials are investigating an uncorroborated account from a high-ranking former Syrian official that American freelance ...

A Syrian doctor who had practised in Germany was sentenced to life in prison by a German court on Monday for crimes against ...

The prosecution of Alaa Mousa relied on the legal concept of universal jurisdiction, under which normal rules on territorial ...

Image Abdullah al-Saloom said he risked his life to preserve banners from protests in the northwestern town of Kafranbel against the Assad government. “This is the history of the Syrian ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... President Donald Trump met earlier this month with Ahmed al-Sharaa, the de-facto leader of Syria, and signaled that he’s open to ...

Another department will handle security for government facilities and foreign missions, as embassies reopen in Syria following Bashar al-Assad's ouster in December. A tourism police body will secure ...

Most of the U.S. sanctions on Syria were imposed during the previous government of Bashar al-Assad, who carried out serious abuses against civilians including the use of chemical weapons ...

including one on government forces that an opposition war monitor described as the first on the Syrian army to be carried out by the jihadists since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December.

Bashar al-Assad. Following Trump's announcement, officials debated whether to implement maximum relief or to pursue a more conditional, phased approach to easing sanctions. Hawks in the administration ...

First, he announced, to riotous applause in Riyadh, that the United States would suspend all sanctions on the country as the Syrian government navigates a difficult transition following the collapse ...