Days before his troops overthrew the regime of Bashar Assad, Ahmad al-Sharaa declared that Syria deserves a system in which ...

The icy winds of Moscow offer little warmth for exiled Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, whose sudden downfall on December 8 ...

Syrian security forces arrested a former commander in the ousted regime of Bashar al-Assad on Thursday for involvement in war crimes in Syria, the Interior Ministry said. A ministry statement said ...

They also killed my cousin and her mother-in-law, who was 80 years old,” Mazen told Al Jazeera. “Why didn’t anyone stop [the killing]?” he added. In 2011, the Assad regime crushed a ...

This phase is characterised by the continuation of the security, political and economic mechanisms established by the regimes of Hafez al-Assad and his successor, Bashar, but without relying on Assad ...

The EU led the way on pledging aid for Syria on Monday at a donor drive in Brussels – but the call for funding to help the war-torn country after Bashar al-Assad’s ouster risked falling short ...

After the 1973 war, former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad realized that reclaiming the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights through military means was impossible. His frustration grew when Egyptian ...

Both men have experienced the prisons of Hafez al-Assad, Bashar's father and predecessor as head of Syria. They were arrested when they were still only students, in the 1980s, a time when the clan ...

Many of Syria's Sunnis, who make up more than 70% of the population, felt politically and economically marginalized by Bashar al-Assad and his father Hafez, who both harshly cracked down on Sunni ...

Among the leaders in attendance were Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd bin Abdulaziz, Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, Lebanese President Amin Gemayel, and Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Chairman ...

Syrian human rights activist Ribal al-Assad tore into Europe for lifting sanctions against the nation’s new "terrorist" regime, which he warned is no better than his first cousin, ousted leader ...