The judge who sentenced Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia last week was himself sentenced to death in absentia by the same regime years earlier. Judge Fakhr al-Din al-Aryan ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad once again denied in an interview that his military forces used sarin gas to attack his own people on Aug. 21. The Fox News interview took place Tuesday in Damascus ...

Bashar al-Assad is the former president of Syria who held power for decades before his government was overthrown during a rebel offensive. Assad fled to Moscow and was granted political asylum after ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People hold a poster of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during a rally in support of Russia ...

Sentence is first to be handed down by Syria to toppled president Syrians celebrate in Deraa, birthplace of anti-Assad protests in 2011 Court also sentences Assad's brother Maher, ex-security official ...

A Syrian criminal court in Damascus has sentenced ousted president Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia after finding him guilty of killings, torture, arbitrary arrests and crimes against humanity ...