Major-General Mohammed Ali Durgham is accused of links to 1982 Hama massacre and 2011 protest crackdown. Syrian authorities ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 17 (Reuters) - A former Syrian government official who headed the Damascus Central Prison under ousted President Bashar al-Assad and was convicted of ‌torture by a US federal jury has ...

Assad fled Syria in December 2024 after a rapid rebel offensive overwhelmed government forces and brought his family’s decades-long rule to an end.

Syrian fighters step around the burned-out tomb of late Syrian President Hafez Assad at his mausoleum in Qardaha, Syria, on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) (ASSOCIATED PRESS) QARDAHA, ...

Rain chances this evening and in the days ahead. They were Assad's first public comments since he was overthrown by insurgent groups just over a week ago following a swift offensive that has shaken up ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Toppled Syrian leader Bashar Assad has released what appeared to be his first public statement since his regime was ousted by ...

QARDAHA, Syria (AP) — On the walls of the palatial mausoleum built to house the remains of former Syrian President Hafez Assad, vandals have sprayed variations of the phrase, “Damn your soul, Hafez.” ...

The judge who sentenced Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia last week was himself sentenced to death in absentia by the same regime years earlier. Judge Fakhr al-Din al-Aryan ...

With the fall of the Assad regime in Syria and Hezbollah in Lebanon defeated and increasingly isolated, attention turns to the Houthis in Yemen. Perhaps the strongest remaining Iranian proxy force in ...

Banned and driven into exile for decades under Assad, Syria's Muslim Brotherhood is now at the centre of a debate over how opposition-era groups fit into a country still rebuilding its political syste ...

The world was taken by surprise when rebels in Syria abruptly toppled Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Those in the political and foreign policy establishment, who have long been advocating regime change, ...