Russian President Vladimir Putin held a rare meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ahead of a summit aimed at shaping a political settlement to end the six-year civil war in the country.

Photographs of more than 10,000 regime victims capture a campaign of torture and mass murder in haunting, meticulous detail.

Thousands of Syrian government records have been leaked documenting widespread torture and killing under the Assad regime, and an analysis of hundreds of photographs underscores the scale of the ...

T he meandering roads through Latakia, Syria’s Alawite heartland, feel deceptively calm. In March they were the scene of ...

A trove of leaked records provides new evidence of thousands of Assad regime killings — and a chance for closure for families ...

2003 - Putin visits Britain in June for a four-day state visit - the first Russian leader to do so since 1874 - to rebuild ...

Russia in January accuses Britain of carrying out a spying operation which involved using a receiver hidden in a fake rock to gather secret information from agents. 2006 - Alexander Litvinenko, a ...

Sharaa, a former Islamist commander, toppled Syria’s dictator Bashar al-Assad on December 8, 2024. For a fleeting moment, ...

A newly revealed trove of photos depicts 10,000 people who had died in Bashar al-Assad’s brutal prison system during his last ...

The Waterloo startup Findsuri was asked to help as Syria emerges from decades of tyranny. A Syrian refugee in Waterloo Region founded the startup to help Syrians find out what happened to love ones ...

RoboCop has found a permanent home in Detroit — all 11 feet and 3,500 pounds of him. A statue of the crime-fighting movie ...

Iraqi officials have retracted a decision to label Hezbollah and the Houthi rebels as terrorist organizations. The move, announced Thursday, was initially published in Iraq's official gazette on ...