Al-Hourani says relatives would be reached through “various media” after work on each mass grave is finished. “Of course, it is difficult to open all the graves in one time and work on them.

A cemetery near Damascus was transformed into an industrial-scale mass grave for Syrians who opposed President Bashar ...

President Bashar al-Assad landed in Russia, according to state media outlets there and two Iranian officials, after fleeing the country as rebels took control of Syria’s capital.

TO GO WITH STORY BY NATACHA YAZBECK (FILES) A picture dated June 13, 2003 shows Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his brother Maher (L) attending their father's funeral in Damascus on June 13, 2000 ...

Bashar al-Assad’s rise to power was unplanned, as he was not initially groomed to succeed his father, Hafez al-Assad.

By late 2024, with Bashar al-Assad’s regime fallen and Trump back in power, Syria had not been a US priority, with internal debate over how to engage the new al‑Sharaa administration.

A delegation of Syrian Jews arrived Wednesday at Kerdaha, where the late president Hafez Assad is buried, to pay their respects and offer condolences to his family. The delegation was headed by ...

Wassim al-Assad was sanctioned by the United States in 2023 for leading a paramilitary force backing Assad's army and for trafficking drugs including the amphetamine-like drug captagon. Bashar al ...

Al-Assad takes the oath before parliament as president of Syria after winning an overwhelming vote in a nationwide referendum to take over the post held by his late father Hafez for 30 years.

Syria's security forces have detained Wassim al-Assad, a cousin of toppled leader Bashar al-Assad, state news agency SANA said on Saturday.

Assad inherited Syria's leadership from his father Hafez, a powerful military dictator who leaned heavily on the nation's feared security services to crush dissent and suppress all challenges to ...