From exile in Moscow, ex-intel chief Kamal Hassan and Assad cousin Rami Makhlouf are spending millions in competing efforts ...

Ousted Syrian leader's former spy chief and billionaire cousin scheme to destabilise Syria with armed violence.

Former loyalists to Bashar al-Assad who fled Syria after the dictator’s fall are funneling millions of dollars to tens of ...

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.

Wealthy former insiders attempt to stoke uprising among Alawi minority against interim government, says new report ...

Exiled Assad loyalists in Moscow are funding a Syrian insurgency, competing for control of fighters and arms caches to topple the new government.

Exiled members of Bashar Assad’s former inner circle are quietly rebuilding networks, funding fighters, and positioning ...

Senior allies of deposed Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad are channeling millions of dollars to tens of thousands of potential fighters in an effort to undermine Syria’s new leadership, according to a ...

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 ...

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

COLUMN. The Syrian transition, underway for the past year, must avoid sliding back into the kind of brutal authoritarianism ...

By bnm Gulf bureau An image purportedly showing ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad walking in Moscow's Red Square with a ...