Exiled Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was hospitalized recently after being poisoned while hiding out in Russia, according to a human rights watchdog. al-Assad, a longtime ally of Russian President ...

Members of the security forces belonging to Syria's new authorities and supporters of former dictator Bashar al-Assad ...

Nearly 200,000 Syrian refugees have returned home since the fall of Bashar al-Assad in early December, the UN refugee chief Filippo Grandi said Saturday ahead of a visit to the region.

The sanctions relief fulfils the Trump administration's pledges following the US leader's May meeting with al-Sharaa in Riyadh, during which he promised to lift or waive decades-old sanctions against ...

1994 - Syrian President Hafez Assad’s oldest son and heir apparent, Basel, dies in a car accident. Second son Bashar, is called back from medical training in Britain and is groomed to take over his ...

On Jan. 1, 2025, several media outlets including Newsweek and The Sun reported on a supposed poison attack on the exiled former president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, who resides in Russia, as of this ...

Syrian authorities have issued an arrest warrant for the ousted president, Bashar al-Assad, a judge announced on Saturday. In a statement to the state-run news agency SANA (affiliated with Syria’s ...

More than half a million Syrians displaced across the Middle East have returned home since the fall of former president Bashar Al Assad’s regime six months ago, the UN's refugee agency said on ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk talks to the press in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday Jan. 15, 2025.(AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki) DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The United Nations human rights chief ...

The UN Security Council on Thursday announced its adoption of Resolution 2799, which aims to remove two individuals, including current President Ahmed al-Sharaa, from its sanctions list on the ...

Nearly 100 people have been recorded as abducted or disappeared in Syria since the start of the year, with reports of new ...

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani raises the new Syrian flag during a ceremony at United Nations headquarters in New York — ANGELA WEISS Syria's foreign minister on Friday raised his country's ...