By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -United Nations sanctions monitors have seen no "active ties" this year between ...

Bashar al-Assad is the second son of Hafez al-Assad, a military officer who led a coup in 1970 and ruled Syria for nearly 30 years. ... “The regime just broke,” said Aron Lund, ...

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham will no longer be designated as a terrorist group, months after the group swept to power in Syria.

President Bashar al-Assad of Syria was isolated for years after brutally crushing his country’s Arab Spring uprising. But in most Arab capitals today, the only question is how — not whether ...

Syrian rebels seized Damascus on Sunday, and long-time President Bashar Assad fled the battle-scarred country amid the stunning collapse of his regime after 13 years of war. Assad and his family ...

Rebel forces in Syria said they captured four cities 24 hours. In a stunning turn, the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad appears to have fallen after rebels advanced into the capital ...

In the statement, Mr. al-Assad said that he had not considered “stepping down or seeking refuge” as the rebels advanced, and that he had remained in Damascus until Dec. 8, when, he said, rebel ...

Asma and Bashar al-Assad at the opening of the 2022 Asian Games. AFP via Getty Images She is so sick “she can’t be in the same room” with hardly anyone else, the source said.

Hawaii Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is not the enemy of the United States, standing by her opposition to US involvement in that country’s civil war two ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad boarded a plane and left Damascus for an unknown destination on Sunday, two senior army officers told Reuters, as rebels said they had entered the capital with no ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, center, and his wife, Asma, on his right, leave a polling station in Douma, a suburb of the capital, Damascus, after casting their votes in the country's ...

For 13 years, President Bashar al-Assad has governed Syria. For 2½ of those years he’s faced repeated calls from many inside and outside the country for his resignation.