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

GENEVA (Reuters) - United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk arrived in Syria's capital, Damascus, on ...

The fall of longtime strongman Bashar al-Assad has created a power vacuum that threatens some of the United States' ...

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

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

Foreign ministers and top diplomats from Western and Middle Eastern countries are meeting Syria's new foreign minister in the ...

Residents of Syria’s capital are picnicking on a once-forbidden mountaintop and trading openly in dollars and imported ...

One month after the surprisingly rapid fall of President Bashar al-Assad's government, Syrians are balancing feelings of hope ...

International efforts are needed to bring members of deposed former Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad's brutal regime to justice, ...

Tensions are high on Syria’s border with Lebanon. The ouster of President Bashar al-Assad led to worry that violence could ...

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

Supporting Assad, himself an Alawite, was a matter not of loyalty or politics for this community, the regime insisted, but of ...