DAMASCUS, Syria — A Syrian commission for missing persons estimated that between 120,000 and 300,000 people have gone missing during more than five decades of authoritarian rule by the Assad family.

Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday afternoon that at least 1,429 people were killed in the recent chemical weapons attack in Syria, including at least 426 children — evidence meant to bolster ...

Assad, ousted ten months ago after decades of authoritarian rule, was reportedly poisoned while living in exile in Moscow.

DAMASCUS—The resemblance was striking. The boy in the photograph had the family’s same thick eyebrows and looked about 17, the same age Ahmed Yaseen would now be—if he was still alive. Could it be him ...