The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the ...

Despite concerns around the destruction of documents and other indications of serious crimes committed in Syria under Bashar ...

The United Nations refugee chief says some 200,000 refugees have returned to Syria from neighboring countries since the ...

A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved in suppressing the protests that started the 2011 ...

The United Nations refugee chief says some 200,000 refugees have returned to Syria from neighboring countries since the government of Bashar Assad was ... Ahmad al-Sharaa, that many of the ...

The shift is based on an assessment done by the UN in January, weeks after Assad was ousted by Islamist rebels, bringing an abrupt end to a 13-year civil war that had created one of the biggest refuge ...

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi on Saturday ... Damascus where he met with Syria’s de facto leader Ahmed Sharaa. Since longtime ruler Bashar Assad was overthrown last month, around ...

and others have started to open up new ties with Julani to potentially integrate Syria more deeply into the West’s sphere of influence than Syria had been under Bashar al-Assad. Top UN and some ...

Asharq Al Awsat A United Nations commission said Thursday it had documented the systematic destruction and pillaging of displaced people's property during Syria's war, warning of demographic change ...

Amid the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War and talks with Israel, Hafez al-Assad's top priority was ...

The United Nations refugee chief said Saturday that some 200,000 refugees have returned to Syria from neighboring countries since the government of Bashar Assad was overthrown last month.