"Many regime war criminals were Sunnis: Ali Mamlouk, the intelligence chief; Asma, Bashar’s wife; Moustapha Tlass, the former defence minister ... Bashar al-Assad behaved like a monster not ...

For over 50 years, the Assad regime had a brutal ... to regular life?” says Ms. al-Khanshor angrily. “How? God have no mercy on them.” All that Tawfiq Ali Diab has left is a tire shop ...

Her father Ali, an activist ... who pledged justice for victims of atrocities under Assad's rule, "are not yet taking these cases seriously". She said Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa "has yet to do ...

Celebrations broke out across Syria on Wednesday evening following the appointment of Ahmed al-Sharaa, leader of the new ...

ABU ALI: (Speaking Arabic). YACOUB: (Speaking Arabic). FENG: "There's no security anymore," Abu Yacoub continues. "At least under the former dictator, Bashar al-Assad," he says, "there was security." ...

Syrian phone shop owner Abdel Razzaq Hamra was thrilled to finally be working in peace after years of being harassed and ...

Under Bashar al-Assad, expression was curtailed by repressive laws and strict ... which ensured the promotion of the regime’s ideology and the obscuration of truth. Journalist and writer Ali Safar ...

The dictator Bashar al-Assad was driven out of Syria by rebel ... according to observers. Hager Ali, political scientist and researcher at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA ...

Officers say the move aims to instil a sense of morality as they race to fill a security vacuum after dismantling ousted president Bashar al-Assad's notoriously corrupt and brutal security forces.

The move to put religion at the center of policing risks seeding new rifts in a diverse country awash with guns after 13 ...

MUMBAI, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan was stabbed repeatedly ... in three days and Syria's deadliest since Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power in December.