Mammoth concrete apartment buildings line the main motorway running west out of Damascus, relics of a Soviet-style economy ...

Hafez al-Assad did not settle for ruling Syria with an iron grip—he also sought to control Lebanon, and he got his way.

FILE - Syria's de facto leader Ahmad al-Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammed al-Golani, walks in the presidential palace ahead of his meeting with Walid Ellafi, Libyan minister of state for ...

The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The Syrian factions that toppled President Bashar Assad last month named an Islamist former ... walks in the presidential palace ahead of his meeting with Walid Ellafi, Libyan ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The Syrian factions that toppled President Bashar Assad last month named an ... walks in the presidential palace ahead of his meeting with Walid Ellafi, Libyan minister ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will be touring Uruguay, Paraguay, and Chile between February 28 and March 8, it was ...

Al-sharaa's visit to Turkey marks the highest-level meeting since 2009, signaling a potential shift in Syrian-Turkish ...

After the Assad regime fell last month ... living in poverty while he lived in a palace with a million rooms,” Ismail says about the former president. Outside, the gardens are well manicured ...

President Ahmed al-Shara vowed to be inclusive ... and defaced picture of the ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad at the Palace of Justice in Damascus last month.Credit ...

He later met with a smiling Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom's de facto ruler, at al-Yamamah Palace in Riyadh ... money into insurgent groups that tried to topple President Bashar ...