In a stunning shift in Middle Eastern politics, Syria, under the leadership of Bashar al-Assad, has rejoined the Arab League ...

More than a decade after being isolated by the Arab world for his brutal crackdown during Syria’s civil war, President Bashar ...

Maher al-Assad is wanted for war crimes and reportedly fled to Russia by way of Iraq as rebel forces took over Syria.

Switzerland said on Friday it will lift a raft of economic sanctions imposed on Syria, including the Middle Eastern country's ...

The bank-to-bank transfer using the SWIFT system was symbolically important, indicating the war-torn country was ...

A German court has handed down a life sentence to a Syrian doctor convicted of committing acts of torture as part of Bashar ...

Premieres Tuesday, June 10, 2025 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Investigating the Assad regime's arrest, torture and ...

U.S. officials are investigating an uncorroborated account from a high-ranking former Syrian official that American freelance ...

On August 31, 2013, as French warplanes were en route to Syria to launch a joint operation with the US against the regime of ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A Kurdish politician said on Wednesday that she had seen Maher al-Assad, brother of the ousted ...

A German court on Monday handed a life sentence to a Syrian doctor who tortured opponents of former ruler Bashar al-Assad ...

A German court sentenced a Syrian doctor to life imprisonment for killing two people and torturing nine in Syria between 2011 ...