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

A lot has happened in just a year on both sides of the Lebanon-Syria border. A lightning offensive by Islamist insurgents in Syria toppled longtime autocrat Bashar Assad and brought a new gov ...

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 ...

Syria plans to hold parliamentary elections in September, according to the head of the election organizing body.

Assad's whereabouts remain unknown. Videos on social media showed Syrian forces abandoning their posts and melting away. There were also reports of Syrian military troops surrendering in other cities.

Syria is the world's largest supplier of Captagon, a synthetic stimulant that is a popular drug in the Middle East. Analysts estimate the Assad regime netted billions each year from its trade.

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

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

Assad’s exit stood in stark contrast to his first months as Syria’s unlikely president in 2000, when many hoped he would be a young reformer after three decades of his father’s iron grip.

The clashes in March included murder, torture and other ‘inhumane acts’ that UN investigators say amount to war crimes.

The Syrian opposition that brought down Assad is led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which the U.S. says is a terrorist organization with links to al-Qaida, although the group says it has since broken ...

(CNN) — Syria’s iron-fisted leader Bashar al-Assad is the second generation of an autocratic family dynasty that held power for more than five decades and his disappearance amid a lightning ...