A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved in suppressing the protests that started the 2011 ...

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...

was "shot in front of his wife and two children" outside the city's sports stadium. The retired public servant recalled how ...

Syria’s Civil Defense has uncovered over two dozen charred bodies in two basements in rural Damascus, adding to the growing ...

The U.S. freeze comes as IS tries to take advantage of the vacuum created by the fall of Assad’s government in early December ...

Najib, former head of Political Security Branch in Daraa, is linked to early repression during 2011 uprising - Anadolu Ajansı ...

Assad, an Afghan refugee now living in California, had been receiving help from a resettlement agency. But now, that money ...

Protests against the Assad regime spread quickly in the spring of that year after a group of children were arrested and tortured for writing anti-regime graffiti on walls in the city of Deraa.