In a stunning shift in Middle Eastern politics, Syria, under the leadership of Bashar al-Assad, has rejoined the Arab League ...

The fall of Bashar al-Assad last December did not erase the deep-rooted prejudices within Syrian society. Identity and ...

Maher al-Assad is wanted for war crimes and reportedly fled to Russia by way of Iraq as rebel forces took over Syria.

A Syrian doctor who had practised in Germany was sentenced to life in prison by a German court on Monday for crimes against ...

Syria was once among the closest allies of the Islamic republic, but the new government resents Tehran’s support for the ...

The prosecution of Alaa Mousa relied on the legal concept of universal jurisdiction, under which normal rules on territorial ...

Switzerland said on Friday it will lift a raft of economic sanctions imposed on Syria, including the Middle Eastern country's ...

Her remarks, delivered from the UN Security Council platform, signal a broader American initiative to reshape regional ...

U.S. officials are investigating an uncorroborated account from a high-ranking former Syrian official that American freelance ...

Over the past six months since the fall of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, 7,670 people - mostly civilians - have been ...

Assad, many Syrians fear they have merely exchanged one autocrat for another. Confronted with a battered economy and ...

Following violence and massacres in late April, Syria's new government aims to stop sectarian violence and secure a monopoly ...