In a park overlooking Damascus, 25-year-old Khaldoun Hallak has spent the past few evenings with his friends, drinking yerba ...

By announcing the reopening of its embassy in Damascus, Morocco has opened a new chapter in its relations with Syria. This ...

Russia’s relations with Israel are complicated. Although the Soviet Union initially supported the creation of the state of ...

More than a decade after being isolated by the Arab world for his brutal crackdown during Syria’s civil war, President Bashar ...

In a stunning shift in Middle Eastern politics, Syria, under the leadership of Bashar al-Assad, has rejoined the Arab League ...

The prosecution of Alaa Mousa relied on the legal concept of universal jurisdiction, under which normal rules on territorial ...

An American journalist who went missing in Syria more than a decade ago was executed on orders from then-President Bashar ...

Assad, the ousted former Syrian dictator, is reportedly living in luxury in one of Moscow’s most exclusive neighborhoods, welcomed by Russia. Since fleeing Damascus, Assad has settled in Moscow with ...

Assad, many Syrians fear they have merely exchanged one autocrat for another. Confronted with a battered economy and ...

Former Syrian official and adviser to ousted President Bashar al-Assad has been interviewed in Beirut by the FBI and the CIA in April, in the presence of Lebanese officials, The Washington Post and ...

A Syrian doctor who had practised in Germany was sentenced to life in prison by a German court on Monday for crimes against ...

The ouster of Bashar al-Assad in Syria raised hopes that missing American Austin Tice would emerge from captivity, but it ...