A Syrian prisoner released in a viral CNN report was later identified as a former Assad regime officer charged with torture and extortion.

For years, Bashar al-Assad and his family carefully cultivated an image of the Syrian leader as a modest, austere figure. Assad's regime co...

Bashar Al-Assad has successfully managed to escape to Russia after insurgents in Syria managed to topple his regime, and now the Syrian Pre...

Syria's interim government pledged to establish the rule of law following the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad. Celebrations erupted acr...

Rebels ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and installed a transitional government. Islamist leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, heading the...

Syria's new Islamist leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, announced plans to hold former officials accountable for torturing Syrians. Rewards will be o...

Bashar Al Assad Fall: The abrupt fall of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime ends five decades of Baath Party rule in Syria, following a dec...

Syrian rebels seized Hama, a city etched in memory by the 1982 massacre. The insurgents removed a poster of President Bashar Assad. Hama's ...

Ukraine has accused Russia and Iran of being responsible for the escalating conflict in Syria, where Islamist forces and allies have taken ...

France has issued an international arrest warrant for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, accused of complicity in crimes against humanity ov...

Assad, with the help of Russia and Iran-backed forces, has all but crushed a mainly Sunni Muslim armed opposition that evolved from peacefu...

Pro-democracy protests against President Bashar al-Assad's authoritarian family rule erupted in March 2011 in southern Syria and were met b...

Assad's forces have recaptured much of Syria, with the backing of his allies Russia and Iran, which helped tip the balance of power in his ...

Brake is leading a group of his party MPs calling on Rudd to use her powers to withdraw Asma Assad's citizenship for her support to Assad's...

The so-called offences of those executed included sodomy, apostasy and alcohol smuggling, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights notes.

On the Golan, Israel responded to two stray rockets from Syria by targeting two regime military posts, without specifying if they were hit.

"President Obama's decision to seek a Congressional nod for a military strike on Syria is not an American retreat as being described by the...