Relations between Beirut and Damascus remain tense — as they have been for decades past, a time during which Syria failed to ...

The Assad family's rule was among the most brutal in the region and its prison system, including feared sites such as Saydnaya, was notorious for disappearing people without a trace.

The Assad family ruled Syria for over five decades. A Reuters series reveals how the country transformed after the ...

Amidst the turmoil in Gaza, Israel’s war against Hamas and Hezbollah, security concerns in the Red Sea following attacks by ...

What really happened in Syria? Ruling US elites and Israel have spun the narrative that advocates of democracy were rebelling ...

A lot has happened in just a year on both sides of the Lebanon-Syria border. A lightning offensive by Islamist insurgents in ...

Syria faces a potential food crisis after the worst drought in 36 years slashed wheat production by around 40%.

Syrian government forces and their allies are likely to have committed war crimes during their crackdown against Alawite ...

Syria's future as a unified state hangs in the balance as both countries pursue long-standing plans to cement hegemonic ...

A U.N.-backed commission that investigated sectarian violence on Syria's coast earlier this year found that there was ...

Russia's top diplomat has met with Syria's new foreign minister for talks in Moscow during the first formal visit by a Syrian official since President Bashar Assad was ousted last year despite years o ...

Upon his father's death in 2000, Assad -- who had risen to the rank of colonel in the Syrian army -- had already consolidated support in the military and the Baath political party, according to a ...