They say disparate violent incidents in the past two months—including alleged extrajudicial killings and the destruction of a ...

Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad were allegedly communicating before rebels took over the Syrian government in December.

The Telegram account General SVR is popular with British tabloids but has a less-than-perfect track record for truth.

In-depth: The Druze community is navigating a complex path in post-Assad Syria, striving to preserve its autonomy and wary of ...

Syria’s new leaders have been criticised after they announced plans to remove poetry about women and love from schools under ...

Hopes are high that Syria can forge a way in a region long stuck between authoritarianism and fundamentalism. For that to happen, individual freedoms can’t be dismissed as a Western ploy to undermine ...

A video shared on X purports to show former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad visiting his aunt’s home in Moscow, Russia.

In its early years, the party recognised the important cultural role of religion for Muslims ... Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Hafez al-Assad, and later his son Bashar, in Syria.

Javier Gil Guerrero does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...

Syria’s 54-year dictatorship under Hafez al-Assad and his son Bashar, now exiled in Russia, was one of the world’s most despised regimes.

Assad's statement on Monday appeared to contradict the announcement made by the Russian foreign ministry after the Kremlin had granted asylum to the former Syrian leader. The ministry said that Assad ...