Bashar Al Assad

View of the Syrian capital of Damascus on Dec. 11, as the Islamist-led rebels settle in to take control of the city, after Bashar al-Assad was ousted.

View of Umayyad Square and other streets in Damascus on Dec. 10, as the Islamist-led rebels settle in ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's visit was a possible decoy.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his Syrian counterpart, Bashar al-Assad, signed a “strategic cooperation” agreement in Damascus on May ...

Moves to restore ties between Turkey and Syria—after 12 years of bitter hostility—appear to be back on track ...

Syria, in the aftermath of two devastating earthquakes on Feb. 6 that left thousands dead in the country’s northwest, ...

The restoration of ties between Damascus and Ankara is contingent upon the latter ending its military presence in ...

The United States said Friday that it was "profoundly disappointed and troubled" by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's visit ...

Bombs attached to a bus carrying Syrian army troops exploded in Damascus killing 14. This was followed by ...

BEIRUT—Syrian President Bashar al-Assad won a fourth term in office with 95.1 percent of the votes in an ...

NEW YORK—Russia and China vetoed a last-ditch attempt by Western members of the U.N. Security Council to extend ...

WASHINGTON—The United States on June 17 imposed its toughest sanctions ever targeting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to choke ...

BEIRUT—The Syrian military shelled the last stronghold of active rebellion against President Bashar al-Assad on Sept. 5 as ...

The death of veteran U.S. war journalist Marie Colvin in 2012 in Syria fits with a long list of targeted, ...

A big question is reverberating in the minds of many; why have the Arab Gulf states not taken ...

In fear of pro-democracy movements, the Chinese regime has prolonged the Syrian civil war.

In a speech on July 26, Assad's mask slipped completely. Later, the state-run media SANA tried to downplay ...

BEIRUT—A Russian initiative to host peace talks this month between the Syrian government and its opponents appears to ...

The campaign against the estimated 20,000 mostly Sunni combatants of ISIL in Iraq and Syria can probably only ...

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says coalition airstrikes have not halted the advance of Islamic State forces.

In his speech on Sept. 10 President Obama characterized the Islamic State as a terrorist group. There were ...

The resignation of Lakhdar Brahimi - as the United Nations and Arab League Special Envoy to Syria - ...

In the current two months between mid-April and early June, five Arab countries—Algeria, Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt, and even ...

It’s simpler when war is binary. Easier to understand – and discuss – when one side is winning, ...

The three-year old Syrian crisis presents dire dilemmas for Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) and in ...

When Basil Assad, oldest son and heir apparent to the late President Hafez Assad, was killed in a ...

Forbes released its sensational annual list of the "most powerful" people in the world yesterday. Typically, the top spot ...