Activists say that at least 6,126 people were killed in Iran’s crackdown on nationwide protests and many more are still feared dead DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Iran's bloody crackdown on nationwide ...

Two Iranian-backed militias in the Middle East are signaling their readiness to launch new attacks. The move seems to support ...

CNN visits Al-Roj camp, a detention center in northeastern Syria where more than 2,000 women and children (though some are no longer children) have been held – some for more than a decade – by the ...

As Syrian forces push into Kurdish regions, the Syrian Democratic Council calls for urgent global intervention to prevent a massacre. "Regarding Rojava – in the event of government forces seeking to ...

As clashes escalate in northern Syria, viral videos claim IS relatives escaping, mass border crossings, and unrest. DW Fact ...

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 ...

Assad, the brother of the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, crushed an Islamist uprising in Hama in 1982 before ...

The first wave of detentions in the new Syria came almost immediately – just after victorious rebels flung open the doors of Bashar al-Assad’s notorious prisons. As ordinary Syrians stormed detention ...

Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is living in near-isolation in Russia, sidelined by President Vladimir Putin, one year after fleeing Syria following the collapse of his rule, according to a ...

Extensive Russian influence in Syria goes back to the Soviet era and survived the collapse of the USSR and the end of communism. It appears that now Russian influence in Syria has survived the fall of ...