KOCHI: When news broke on December 8 on the sudden collapse of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime, even veteran West Asian watchers were aghast. For, Assad’s abdica ...

Lebanon expelled around 70 Syrian officers and soldiers on Saturday, returning them to Syria after they crossed into the ...

According to five Lebanese officials who spoke on condition of anonymity, Rasha Hazem, wife of Duraid Assad, and their ...

Observers said more than 100,000 died in prisons and detention centres during the civil war. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The new head of Syria's intelligence services announced a plan to dissolve the institutions that were so feared under the ...

Finding the remnants of the old dictatorship and bringing them to justice has emerged as a top priority for the new ...

Syria’s new administration is carrying out a security crackdown against what it has described as “remnants” of former ...

That hope was boosted Friday with the news that Roger D. Carstens, the special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, had arrived in the capital city of Damascus along with two other top U.S.

Rifaat al-Assad, an uncle of the ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad charged in Switzerland with war crimes over the bloody suppression of a revolt in 1982, has flown from Beirut to Dubai in recent ...

Assad's ouster, there are questions about the fate of the Syrian Democratic Forces, the U.S.-backed Kurdish coalition that ...

A visit to the souk in the old city in the Syrian capital of Damascus tell us a lot about the state of the country's current economy.

Nearly 31,000 Syrians have returned home since the fall of strongman Bashar al-Assad, Turkey's interior minister said Friday, the figure rising by about 5,000 in just three days.