Hundreds of former Syrian soldiers on Saturday reported to the country's new rulers for the first time since Bashar Assad was ...

Assad, who wielded fear and force over Syria for more than two decades, fled the country under the cover of night — and a ...

One challenge is just locating all of Syria’s prisons. Mr. Assad’s prison labyrinth ... able to target a prominent Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps leader in Damascus in an October airstrike ...

The Syrian regime’s collapse came more quickly than the rebels had dreamed — the circumstances were both serendipitous and part of a larger global realignment.

WARNING: This story includes graphic descriptions of torture.Nabil Hawara painfully remembers the endless cycle of torture ...

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

DAMASCUS - Syria’s new rulers have appointed Murhaf Abu Qasra, a leading figure in the insurgency which toppled Bashar ...

The buffer zone between Syria and the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights was created by the U.N. after the 1973 Mideast war. A ...

Assad's Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shia Islam whose members make up one of Syria's biggest religious minorities. Alawites ...

Qatar has reopened its embassy in Damascus, 13 years after closing it during the early stages of Syria’s civil war. The move ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Sunday met Ahmed al-Sharaa who led anti-regime forces that toppled the Assad regime.

Part of a stateless ethnic group straddling Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Armenia and Syria, Kurds have so far been among the few ...