A cemetery near Damascus was transformed into an industrial-scale mass grave for Syrians who opposed President Bashar ...

The Trump administration is holding "preliminary discussions" with Israel and Syria on a potential security agreement between ...

Assad is a longtime ally of Putin, and the two have shared a friendly relationship for decades.He and his family will likely be given luxurious quarters by the Russian government. Former Ukrainian ...

The summer home of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad was once off-limits to ordinary Syrians. Now people are lining up to visit and wandering around the rooms — which are empty after being looted.

Who’s on Assad’s side? The Assad family, which has run Syria since a 1970 coup, is Alawite, ... Not surprisingly, the U.S. and the European Union view Assad as an enemy.

Syria Islamist rebels in Syria catch Assad, Putin, Iran regimes off guard giving US new mideast headache Radical Islamist group HTS seeks to create ‘Talibanesque society in Syria,’ expert says ...

Washington had considered intervening on the side of the insurgents, but mostly stayed on the sidelines. Since 2014, U.S. troops have been operating in northern Syria, but their mission has been ...

Iranian-backed militias such as Hezbollah have been fighting on the Assad side since at least 2012. Russia threw its weight behind Assad from 2015, as Vladimir Putin saw a chance to reassert ...

June 21 (Reuters) - Syria's security forces have detained Wassim al-Assad, a cousin of toppled leader Bashar al-Assad, state news agency SANA said on Saturday. Wassim al-Assad was sanctioned by the ...