Jan 21 (Reuters) - Rifaat al-Assad, the brother of the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad known by critics as the "butcher of Hama" for crushing an Islamist uprising in the city in 1982 before ...

An old law from Syria's dictatorship is making life tough for human rights and aid organizations there. Is the Syrian interim ...

The brother and uncle of Syrian tyrants, he commanded a unit that killed up to 40,000 civilians in a 1982 uprising against his family’s rule.

Sky's coverage of the downfall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria has won best news programme at the Broadcast Awards.According to ...

Rifaat al-Assad lived in exile in Europe for nearly 40 years and only returned to Syria in 2021 to avoid being arrested in France on charges of embezzlement.

This is the second time that President Vladimir V. Putin has hosted President Ahmed al-Sharaa since the fall of the Russia-backed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.

The US has rolled back a series of restrictive economic sanctions put in place during the rule of Bashar al-Assad. Syrians ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A photo released by the official Syrian Arab news agency (SANA) on 16 February shows then Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ...

Kremlin has not indicated whether it will agree to al-Sharaa’s repeated requests for Bashar al-Assad’s extradition.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People celebrate and wave Syrian flags as they mark the first anniversary of the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Damascus ...

Thousands of Syrians gathered at the Umayyad Mosque to celebrate the end of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. WSJ’s Ben C. Solomon reports from Damascus as questions linger about what the future holds.