It turns out that North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un and Syria’s Bashar Al-Assad have more in common than just a spot on Obama's enemies list. Furthermore, the common element in both of their personal stories ...

Syria’s government has cracked down on the Captagon industry, which boomed under former longtime leader Bashar al-Assad, according to a United Nations report. Since al-Assad’s ouster a year ago, Syria ...

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 ...

A torn poster of Syria's Bashar al-Assad hangs near the flag adopted by the new Syrian rulers, in Deraa, Syria, December 27, 2024 [File: Zohra Bensemra/Reuters] Former loyalists to deposed Syrian ...

Rafael Grossi tells The National that not all remnants of abandoned nuclear project have been accounted for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A photo released by the official Syrian Arab news agency (SANA) on 16 February shows then Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ...

After two weeks of negotiations, Russia on Thursday told the UN Security Council that there was still no agreement on a 30-day ceasefire in Syria, dimming hopes of international action to halt the ...

One million Syrian refugees have returned from abroad since the fall of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad last December, the United Nations said Wednesday, urging more support to allow others to follow.

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 ...

Thousands of Syrians gathered at the Umayyad Mosque to celebrate the end of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. WSJ’s Ben C. Solomon reports from Damascus as questions linger about what the future holds.