Bashar al-Assad was the 19th president of Syria, entering office in 2000 succeeding his father Hafez al-Assad as the country's leader and as head of the Ba'ath Party. He was ousted in December 2024 by ...

Hundreds of Syrian protesters gathered Thursday at Umayyad Square in Damascus for the first time since the fall of Bashar ...

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Syrian Kurds ran their own autonomous region for 12 years after breaking away from the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.

DAMASCUS—The family of Abdu Kharouf, a moderate Muslim preacher in a dirt-poor section of Damascus, had been haunted for half a decade by questions of how exactly he ended up in a prison run by ...

Armed men burst into the apartment where student Mohamad lived with his Alawite family in the Syrian city of Jableh on March ...

Syrian security forces foiled a planned cross-border attack from its territory Sunday, allegedly planned by the ousted Bashar ...

HOMS, Syria — A year ago, Mohammad Marwan found himself stumbling, barefoot and dazed, out of Syria's notorious Saydnaya prison on the outskirts of Damascus as rebel forces pushing toward the capital ...

Since Ahmed al-Sharaa came to power in Damascus last January, a question has hovered in the air: Has Syria truly changed, or merely changed hands? Seeking sanctions relief, investment and a measure of ...