Authorities arrested the wife and daughter of a cousin of former Syrian dictator Bashar Assad at Beirut’s airport on Dec. 27 as they attempted to leave using fake passports, the Associated Press ...

Observers said more than 100,000 died in prisons and detention centres during the civil war. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The wife and daughter of one of former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad's cousins have been arrested in Lebanon. They were ...

The new head of Syria's intelligence services announced a plan to dissolve the institutions that were so feared under the ...

A delegation from Turkey’s energy ministry headed to Syria on Saturday to help Syrians obtain access to essential services ...

Finding the remnants of the old dictatorship and bringing them to justice has emerged as a top priority for the new ...

Push comes as Syria’s new de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa met Bahraini, Libyan delegations in Damascus. Syria’s new administration is carrying out a security crackdown against what it has described as ...

Many senior Syrian officials and people close to the former ruling family fled the country to neighbouring Lebanon after Assad's regime was toppled.

That hope was boosted Friday with the news that Roger D. Carstens, the special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, had arrived in the capital city of Damascus along with two other top U.S.

Rifaat al-Assad, an uncle of the ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad charged in Switzerland with war crimes over the bloody suppression of a revolt in 1982, has flown from Beirut to Dubai in recent ...

Assad's ouster, there are questions about the fate of the Syrian Democratic Forces, the U.S.-backed Kurdish coalition that ...

A visit to the souk in the old city in the Syrian capital of Damascus tell us a lot about the state of the country's current economy.