CNN's Clarissa Ward witnessed firsthand the incredible moment an incarcerated man at one of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's notorious prisons became a free man.

U.N. peacekeepers' "freedom of movement is severely constrained in the current context," a U.N. official told Newsweek.

As Syrian rebels overthrow President Bashar al-Assad and his government, the world is keeping an eye on what's happening at ...

Syrian rebels have desecrated the tomb of ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad’s father, former Syrian President Hafez al Assad.

On Wednesday, at Sednaya, a political prison in Syria, hundreds of people prowled the grounds. It was the third day after an astonishing rebel offensive deposed Bashar al-Assad, who had ruled as a ...

Since then, as the war intensified, the prison became, by all accounts, even more terrible. In 2021, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights calculated that as many as thirty thousand people had been ...

The U.S. is communicating with rebel groups inside Syria amid the search for missing American journalist Austin Tice, State ...

Many Syrians remain apprehensive about how religious minorities, including Christians, will be treated in a new political ...

The rapid fall of Syria’s autocratic ruler, Bashar al-Assad, this past weekend was one of the most consequential developments ...

The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved resolutions Wednesday demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and expressing support for the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees that Israel has ...

Life slowly began returning to normal in Damascus on Wednesday, with some shops reopening and people strolling through ...

By bnm Gulf bureau Daily life is gradually resuming in Damascus as banks and commercial establishments begin reopening their ...