Former rebels now controlling Syria name an interim president and throw out the constitution adopted under Assad, saying a ...

SHOCKING pictures have revealed Bashar al-Assad's trove of luxury vehicles worth millions of dollars in the fallen dictator's Presidential Palace in Damascus. The high-end collection features a ...

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United Nations rights chief Volker Turk on Wednesday said transitional justice was "crucial" for Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, during the first-ever visit by someone in his post to the ...

Mansour's arrest may ease Egyptian worries over HTS rise Egypt fears Syria's upheaval aids Islamist regrouping Egyptian media critical of Damascus power change, Brotherhood resurgence DAMASCUS ...

For more than a decade, some 6 million Syrians fled the Assad regime for other countries. Now, the opposite is happening. With the fall of that dictatorship last December, a new kind of refugee is ...

The head of an American organisation focused on hostage releases said on Monday he believes U.S. journalist Austin Tice was still being held in Syria by people loyal to toppled leader Bashar al ...

It also doesn't mention one key point: What happens to Bashar al-Assad?" Maybe it's just a coincidence that Iran, one of the regime's few remaining allies, let this glimpse at a post-Assad Syria ...

Sanctions against allies of ousted President Bashar al-Assad who “committed serious crimes” during the Syrian civil war must remain in place, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on ...

- Syria's Intelligence Directorate foiled an attack by the Islamic State group on the Sayeda Zeinab shrine in a Damascus suburb, a site of mass pilgrimage for Shi'ites, state news agency Sana ...