Andrew Donaldson writes on the hullabaloo in the UK over Band Aid’s "Do They Know It’s Christmas?" song I HAVE been keeping an eye on the official UK pop charts. As expected at this time of the year, ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

Syria's interim president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, landed in Saudi Arabia on Sunday for his first international trip since his rebel militant group ousted former President Bashar al-Assad in December.

Syria's new authorities on Friday announced the arrest of a cousin of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad, accused of orchestrating a crackdown in Daraa, where the 2011 uprising began. Atif Najib ...

The arrival of the first top Russian diplomat in Damascus since Bashar al-Assad’s fall kicks off negotiations over the fate of Moscow’s bases in Syria. By Paul Sonne and Christina Goldbaum ...

DAMASCUS, Syria—The Syrian factions that toppled President Bashar Assad last month named an Islamist former rebel leader as the country’s interim president on Wednesday in a push to project a ...

When the Syrian opposition ousted President Bashar Assad on Dec. 8, the forces of the dissolved Syrian regime army left their positions in the south of the country even before the armed opposition ...

Despite concerns about the destruction of documents and other indications of serious crimes committed in Syria under Bashar al-Assad’s rule, UN investigators said Friday that plenty of evidence ...

The prison earned its moniker as a military intelligence branch established in the 1960s by Hafez al-Assad, the father of Bashar al-Assad, to monitor Palestinian groups in Syria. Piles of ...

Syria's interim president made his first trip ... money into insurgent groups that tried to topple former President Bashar Assad after Syria's 2011 Arab Spring protests turned into a bloody ...

Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani met Sharaa in Damascus on Thursday, becoming the first head of state to visit the Syrian capital since Bashar al-Assad was ousted in December.

after leading a rebel campaign that ousted longtime Iran-backed leader Bashar al-Assad, whose ties with the rest of the Arab world were strained throughout the nearly 14-year Syrian war.