Assad’s leadership quickly descended into authoritarianism, marked by mass repression and a devastating civil war. This video ...

Wassim Assad, who had long appeared on US sanctions lists for supporting armed groups and financing the trade of Captagon, an ...

After decades of dictatorship and 13 years of civil war, can Syria put itself back together? Our journalists traveled the ...

The European Union imposed on Monday an asset freeze and a ban on travel to the EU on five people linked with toppled Syrian ...

Syrian authorities have arrested a cousin of former President Bashar Assad, who is under U.S. sanctions for his alleged role ...

Syrian authorities arrested Wassim Al Assad, a cousin of longtime ruler Bashar Al Assad, the interior ministry said Saturday, ...

Syrian rebels seized Damascus on Sunday, and long-time President Bashar Assad fled the battle-scarred country amid the stunning collapse of his regime after 13 years of war. Assad and his family ...

A former senior Syrian security official has told the FBI that American freelance journalist Austin Tice was killed in 2013 on the orders of President Bashar al-Assad, an account that has not been ...

The New Arab publishes a multi-part testimony based on excerpts given by Farouk al-Sharaa, Bashar al-Assad's foreign minister and then vice president, reflecting on various pivotal events that took ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The leader of al-Qaida’s Yemen branch has threatened both U.S. President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip in his ...

A Family’s Decadelong Search for Children Stolen by Assad’s Regime. ... his aunt Naila al-Abbasi wondered? More than 12 years had passed since the boy and his five sisters had disappeared, ...

A presidential decree reinstating Syrian judges who defected during the regime of the ousted ex-President Bashar al-Assad was issued on Thursday, in what appears to be a new push to crack down on ...