An American journalist who went missing in Syria more than a decade ago was executed on orders from then-President Bashar ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is believed to have issued his first remarks since opposition forces took over Syria more than a week ago, claiming his departure from ...

Syrians awakened on Monday to a hopeful if uncertain future after rebels seized the capital, Damascus, and President Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia following 13 years of civil war and more than 50 ...

Entering the weekend, Syria President Bashar al-Assad showed no signs of yielding. As armed rebels closed in Saturday on Damascus, Assad ordered his forces to defend the Syrian capital ...

T he United States has imposed new sanctions on Fawaz al-Akhras, the father-in-law of Bashar al-Assad, the leader of Syria. This move comes just a day after the news that former Syrian president ...

Bashar al-Assad rose to power in 2000 following the death of his father, who had ruled Syria for 30 years. Initially trained as an eye doctor in London, Bashar was not groomed to lead.

When Bashar al-Assad was toppled in December, the iconography of posters, billboards and statues emblematic of his family’s brutal decades-long grip on the country also came down. The images of ...

A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved in suppressing the protests that started the 2011 uprising has been detained inside Syria, according to state news agency SANA.

Half a century of dictatorship between Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez. Half a million lives lost in a civil war under the younger Assad's hand. Now that he's gone, Syria is looking toward ...

As horrific details emerge from Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad's jails, many question the man who once claimed to champion their cause. Palestinians are confronting painful new information about ...