There were highly charged scenes as former senior regime official, Atef Najib, appeared before a Damascus court.

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 Syrian court conducted the first hearing yesterday in the trial of ousted ruler Bashar al-Assad and senior figures from his government, one of whom appea ...

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

In Syria on Sunday, landmark trials began that are expected to bring members of the Assad regime to justice. While the former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and others are being tried in absentia, ...

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has released its 2026 World Press Freedom Index, noting a significant improvement for Syria, ...

A Syrian court conducted the first hearing on Sunday in the trial of ousted ruler Bashar al-Assad and senior figures from his ...

Syria’s interior minister announces the arrest of a senior Assad-era general accused of playing a major role in the 2013 ...

Syria’s Assad dynasty appears to be on a long path to collapse, posing new challenges to the Obama administration’s efforts to break the axis of Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah, says expert Andrew Tabler.

Tice, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, was kidnapped at a checkpoint west of Damascus in August 2012 while reporting on the ...