The interim government in Damascus has called for a powerful Kurdish-led militia backed by the United States to disarm and ...

Often mysterious, the graffiti preserves fragments of what the anonymous inmates were thinking as they faced torture and death.

A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved in suppressing the protests that started the 2011 uprising has been detained inside Syria, according to state news agency SANA.

The trailer has been met with enthusiasm, as people express excitement over a cinema industry without the censorship and ...

Syria's new rulers are combing through the billion-dollar corporate empires of ousted president Bashar al-Assad's allies, and have held talks with some of these tycoons, in what they say is a ...

Vladimir Putin offering refuge to ex-Syrian tyrant Bashar al-Assad in Moscow is undermining Russia’s talks to keep its forces in the wartorn country, according to British defence chiefs.

Syria's new authorities on Friday announced the arrest of a cousin of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad, accused of orchestrating a crackdown in Daraa, where the 2011 uprising began. Atif Najib ...