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.

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 ...

A Family’s Decadelong Search for Children Stolen by Assad’s Regime Documents reveal how Syria’s fallen government hid hundreds of abducted children during civil war Share Resize 16 ...

In Aleppo, children climb atop the horse that once carried Bassel al-Assad. Some scramble onto a concrete base that once held a bust of his father.

Assad's forces detained mothers and children and sent many of the youth to orphanages. Syrians whose children vanished during the war are now seeking information on their fate. NPR investigates.