France's highest court is to decide Friday whether to uphold an arrest warrant against Syria's ex-president Bashar al-Assad ...

Seven months of relative calm in Syria came to a bloody end last week, when what began as local skirmishes escalated into the ...

Bashar al-Assad is the second son of Hafez al-Assad, a military officer who led a coup in 1970 and ruled Syria for nearly 30 years. Born in Damascus, the younger Assad was just 5 years old when ...

After over a decade in exile, many Syrians living abroad are contemplating what was once unthinkable: going home. But what ...

Warning: Distressing content. Thousands of people died inside Bashar Al-Assad's 'human slaughterhouse' prisons in Syria - and ...

After nearly 14 years of devastating war, the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has come to an end, with rebel forces taking control of the capital Damascus. The 24-year rule of Assad ...

Assad's fall, deadly sectarian clashes in southwestern Syria have exposed one of the biggest challenges to the country's ...

Also in our car was Hwaida Saad, a longtime Lebanon reporter for The Times who had covered Syria in depth and with great ...