Jan 21 (Reuters) - Rifaat al-Assad, the brother of the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad known by critics as the "butcher ...

A fragile ceasefire between Syria's government and Kurdish-led forces has temporarily eased tensions in the country's ...

The rapid turn of events has brought almost all of Syria back under the authority of the central Damascus-based state ...

The brother and uncle of Syrian tyrants, he commanded a unit that killed up to 40,000 civilians in a 1982 uprising against ...

Known for his role in the 1982 Hama massacre, the late member of Syria’s former ruling family oversaw the killing of tens of ...

Syria’s government and Kurdish-led forces in the country’s northeast have clashed as President Ahmed al-Sharaa seeks to ...

A fragile truce reached this week between the Syrian government and Kurdish-led fighters was seen as a blow by many Kurds in ...

In the autumn of 2014, the Kurdish-majority town of Kobani in northern Syria was on the brink of falling to Isis militants.

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have fallen from power in Syria as the U.S. shifts its backing to the country's new ...

Hundreds of people descended on the Curry Mile during a protest on Tuesday night ...

The ‘Butcher of Hama’ and former Syrian vice president dies in exile at age 89.

More than 1 year after the fall of the Assad regime, Syrians are attempting to rebuild a health system that was outdated, systematically targeted for more than a decade, and impacted by crippling ...