And just outside Damascus, celebrating crowds tossed a noose around the towering statue of Assad's father, Hafez al-Assad, ...

Assad, who fled to Russia, will be forced to stand trial. That is not deterring activists who have worked for years to ...

Sharaa's Islamist group is stamping its authority on Syria's state with the same lightning speed that it seized the country, ...

Syrian opposition forces have captured the capital city of Damascus and forced the country's president, Bashar al-Assad, to ...

We hold Bashar al-Assad and his criminal regime accountable for the consequences of Austin’s disappearance and the pain ...

Slender shoulders, a limp handshake and soft-spoken lisp. Those were the most vivid memories from my meeting with Bashar al ...

Sham, the leading rebel force, must work to allay public fears that it will seek to replace Assadism with its own form of absolute rule.

Assad’s government by armed opposition groups has created a momentous opportunity for Syria to break with decades of ...

Syria’s new de facto authorities are led by a Sunni Islamist group with extremist origins, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), and ...

Many bodies have been found in Syrian detention centers and prisons since President Bashar al-Assad's government fell.

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, whose name means Organization for the Liberation of the Levant, was the main rebel group leading the ...

After 24 years in power, 13 with his country in a state of civil war, the government of Syria’s Bashar al Assad has collapsed ...