How Syria's Assad propped up the Captagon drug trade Damascus — In a remote corner outside Damascus, Syria, a now abandoned potato chip factory reveals one of the many dark but open secrets of ...

When an uprising against Assad’s iron-fisted rule erupted in spring 2011, al-Hamada was among the first to join and later organize demonstrations in his native city of Deir Ezzor.

A human rights activist and political dissident, she opposed the Assad regime long before the revolution. Imprisoned for opposing Hafez al-Assad, she was tortured and detained from 1987 to 1991.

France's highest court ruled on Friday that an arrest warrant for former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad was invalid as it was ...

The rebels who ousted President Bashar al-Assad in December have since been acting as Syria’s de facto authorities. Mr. al-Shara was named interim president and oversaw a transitional government.

Assad was swept from power by a lightning-quick rebel offensive after a 13-year civil war and six decades of his family’s autocratic rule, and the opulent trappings of a regime that inflicted ...

Clashes between government security forces and supporters of ousted former President Bashar al-Assad have killed at least 311 people in Syria since Thursday, according to a monitoring group that ...

Bashar al-Assad, who rose to power in 2000 after the nearly three-decade authoritarian rule of his father, Hafez al-Assad, saw his regime collapse on December 8 under the weight of a rapid ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — The first international commercial flight since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad landed Tuesday at the Damascus airport. The Qatar Airways flight landed at ...