Russia's top diplomat has met with Syria's new foreign minister for talks in Moscow during the first formal visit by a Syrian ...

Syria plans to hold parliamentary elections in September, according to the head of the election organizing body ...

Between independence from France in 1946 and 1970, when Hafez al-Assad – Bashar’s father – seized power, Syria was ruled by ...

France's highest court is ruling on whether it can strip Bashar al-Assad, the former Syrian leader now in exile in Russia, of ...

Russia has announced Syria’s foreign minister will visit Moscow. This marks the first official visit by a Syrian official since former President Bashar Assad was ousted last year.

They were on opposite sides during Syria's civil war and now must do lifesaving work together. A makeshift brick wall divides them in their Damascus fire station. The psychological wall is higher.

Assad’s fall, deadly sectarian clashes in southwestern Syria have exposed one of the biggest challenges to the country’s ...

Russia and Syria signaled Thursday they would bolster ties and review agreements made under the previous pro-Moscow ...

Violence between government forces and armed factions of a religious minority in southern Syria has deepened divisions in a country still recuperating from a civil war.

During Syria's civil war, the Druze were split between supporting Assad, who offered them a degree of autonomy and exemption from army conscription, and his opposition.

The Cour de Cassation upheld Assad’s head-of-state immunity, but added that since he is no longer in office, “new arrest ...

SAYDNAYA, Syria—Inside Bashar al-Assad’s most-notorious death factory, the hangings had become routine. Once a month, around midnight, the guards at Saydnaya prison would call the names of the ...