Before joining the military and building an Alawite caste around himself, Hafez al-Assad was a fervent supporter of the ...

The summer home of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad was once off-limits to ordinary Syrians. Now people are lining up to visit ...

Since Islamist rebels overthrew the Assad dictatorship in Syria, Egypt, with parallels in its own recent history, has watched ...

Forty-three years after the Assad government killed 40,000 people and levelled entire neighbourhoods, Hamawis reflect on their revolutionary history ...

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.

The former Hawaii congresswoman isn’t just unqualified to be director of national intelligence, she’s a political opportunist ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — The Syrian factions that toppled President Bashar Assad last month named an Islamist former rebel leader as the country‘s interim president on Wednesday in a push to project ...

Director of national intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard shed further light on her 2017 meeting with then-Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, a trip that has come under the microscope since President ...

But in recent weeks, her vulnerability has grown amid escalating concerns over her 2017 meeting with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad and her history of praising a controversial government whistleblower.

After a coalition of rebels toppled the Assad regime, the interim government they have set up in Damascus has moved quickly ...