Assad’s collapse came more quickly than the rebels had dreamed. But the circumstances were both serendipitous and part of a larger global realignment.

Experts agree that evidence obtained from prisons, mass graves after regime's fall can play major role in efforts to ...

The toppling of Bashar Assad has raised tentative hopes that Syrians might live peacefully and as equals after a half century ...

Senior U.S. diplomats visit Damascus, as Washington and Brussels weigh lifting sanctions against the country’s transitional ...

Losing Syrian military bases would hurt the Kremlin’s attempts to project power in the Middle East and Africa.

Ahmad Sharaa, the head of the Islamist rebel group Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham, will have real success by not making the same ousted ...

Rocket launchers, bullets and handguns line the walls of Dirar Ahmed Dirar’s cramped office in Port Sudan’s Daim Almadina ...

Assad's regime is the latest casualty of Iran's war on Israel. After keeping his hold on Syria through 13 years of civil war, ...

Putin, in turn, has often praises Erdogan’s political prowess. Russia and Turkey backed opposing sides in Syria’s civil war ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin promised to ask former Syrian President Assad for help in obtaining information on American ...

Putin has said he will ask the deposed president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, about the U.S. journalist Austin Tice, who went missing in the country 12 years ago. “I promise to ask this question,” he ...

Still, it is in everyone’s interest that Syria succeed. Syrians do not want to endure further strife and devastation, and the ...