Every new appointment, training cycle, and base assignment can reveal the direction of Syria’s emerging defense policy.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wassim al-Assad, cousin of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, is led into a defendant's cage in a Damascus courtroom for his ...

Former Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has been sentenced to death in absentia by a local court over charges linked to “war crimes and crimes against humanity” committed during the country's 14-year ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Syria's former Grand Mufti Ahmad Hassoun (R) was sentenced to life in prison on Monday [File: SANA/EPA] Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun, a ...

Tennessee set to execute a woman for the first time in two centuries Death row inmate Christa Pike, convicted of murdering a schoolmate three decades ago, is due to be executed by lethal injection in ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — A Syrian court on Tuesday sentenced ousted President Bashar Assad and his brother in absentia for murder, torture and crimes against humanity committed before and during the ...

Syria has sentenced the former al-Assad regime figure Wassim al-Assad to death for crimes that include premeditated murder and torture during the country’s 14-year war. His sentence on Tuesday was ...