The former security chief of Daraa, in southern Syria, notorious for his brutality toward anti-regime protesters, played a ...

Assad, Kurdish families struggle with cold, loss and uncertainty — feeling abandoned by the U.S. allies they once fought ...

A Syrian court held its first hearing on Sunday in the trial of ousted president Bashar al-Assad and senior officials from ...

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 ...

Syria has opened its first public trial of officials linked to former President Bashar Assad. Atef Najib, a former army ...

Atef Najib, ex-head of political security in Deraa province, is charged with ‘crimes against the Syrian people’.

Since the outbreak of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, Damascus has seized on the ...

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