By Orhan Qereman, Tom Perry and Tuvan Gumrukcu QAMISHLI, Syria/BEIRUT/ANKARA (Reuters) - With hostile Turkish-backed groups ...

Hassan, referred to as "the butcher" by many civilians on his street, was one of Assad's most menacing enforcers. He led the ...

With hostile Turkish-backed groups mobilising against them in Syria's north, and Damascus ruled by a group friendly to Ankara ...

The toppling of Bashar Assad has raised tentative hopes that Syrians might live peacefully and as equals after a half century ...

Last week, after 50 years of tyranny and repression, the government of Bashar Assad fell in Syria. It fell thanks to a combination of three forces: first, Israel’s military utterly eviscerated Assad’s ...

The Syrian revolution started off as a bottom-up, working class uprising from the peripheries organised through local ...

The U.N. General Assembly has overwhelmingly approved resolutions demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and expressing support for the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees that Israel has moved to ...

Syrian national Samir Ousman Alsheikh, 72, was first arrested in July at the Los Angeles International Airport, where he ...

Yet according to simplistic foreign policy analysts, the problem is, as always, the United States and its allies. In response ...

As the world watches Syria grapple with the aftermath of Bashar al-Assad's brutal regime and the formation of a new ...

U.S. officials have given the rebel group in control of Damascus a list of former members of the Assad government who could ...

Syria’s nearly 14-year-old civil war fragmented the country, crumbled the economy and created fertile ground for the ...