A Syrian woman has said waiting to find out whether she can stay and work in the UK has been like "slowly dying". The UK government paused Syrian asylum and settlement claims on 9 December, the day ...

The Trump administration announced Monday it is revoking the terrorist designation for Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the group ...

Syria’s iron-fisted leader Bashar al-Assad is the second generation of an autocratic family dynasty that held power for more than five decades and his disappearance amid a lighting rebel advance ...

Assad’s regime was toppled, Charlie Smart, a reporter at The New York Times, traveled to a mass burial site in Syria to ...

Bashar al-Assad is the second son of Hafez al-Assad, a military officer who led a coup in 1970 and ruled Syria for nearly 30 years. Born in Damascus, the younger Assad was just 5 years old when ...

After nearly 14 years of devastating war, the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has come to an end, with rebel forces taking control of the capital Damascus. The 24-year rule of Assad ...

Before Bashar al-Assad became president, he was viewed by various Syrian social groups as rather bookish, not someone with the instincts or the drive to lead a country.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad boarded a plane and left Damascus for an unknown destination on Sunday, two senior army officers told Reuters, as rebels said they had entered the capital with no ...