Assad used chlorine and sarin repeatedly during the Syrian civil war. Following a particularly horrible sarin attack in Ghouta in 2013, Assad agreed to eradicate his chemical weapons program, but ...

A Reuters investigation found 40 distinct sites of killings, looting and arson during three days of sectarian massacres ...

After decades of dictatorship and 13 years of civil war, can Syria put itself back together? Our journalists traveled the ...

Syrian authorities have arrested a cousin of former President Bashar Assad, who is under U.S. sanctions for his alleged role ...

Syrian rebels seized Damascus on Sunday, and long-time President Bashar Assad fled the battle-scarred country amid the stunning collapse of his regime after 13 years of war. Assad and his family ...

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

Maher Assad, the brother of ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and former head of the regime's most feared military unit, has reportedly surfaced in Moscow for the first time since the fall of ...

The intricate scheme, spanning four continents, appears to justify concerns that the military arsenal of Bashar al-Assad, the deposed Syrian dictator, could fall into dangerous hands. By Ephrat Livni ...

Washington, SANA-An investigation by the Wall Street Journal revealed that the Assad regime in Syria abducted hundreds of children, purposely separating them from their families during raids and ...

DAMASCUS—The resemblance was striking. The boy in the photograph had the family’s same thick eyebrows and looked about 17, the same age Ahmed Yaseen would now be—if he was still alive. Could ...

Six months after rebels toppled the Assad regime in a seismic moment for the Middle East, many Syrians are still searching for missing relatives, including an estimated 3,700 children.