The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the ...

Amid escalating tensions in the Middle East and shocking US president Donald Trump proposal for the permanent resettlement of the more than two ...

The arrival of the first top Russian diplomat in Damascus since Bashar al-Assad’s fall kicks off negotiations over the fate ...

DNI nominee Tulsi Gabbard faced heavy lines of questioning from lawmakers skeptical of her past endorsement of NSA leaker ...

In 2015, Gabbard was part of a congressional trip led by Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., to the Turkish-Syrian border to see the impact of the war. As part of that trip, they visited Gaziantep, where civilians ...

A Senate committee will consider Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination to lead the Office of the Director of National Intelligence after ...

Russia, Iran and Turkey agree that the priority in Syria is fighting “terrorism” and not the removal of Bashar al-Assad, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters after a ...

And while Mr. al-Assad and his wife, Asma, are currently in Russia, where they have been granted political asylum by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Mr. Wiley is confident that Mr. al-Assad will ...

Once hailed as the “rose of the desert” and the modern face of Syria, Asma al-Assad was widely admired and even compared to the British-born Princess Diana. However, the former first lady is now in ...