Syria will hold parliamentary elections in September, the head of a body tasked with organising the election process told state media Sunday.

The Assad family's rule was among the most brutal in the region and its prison system, including feared sites such as ...

The 14 years under Assad’s authoritarian leadership has been brutal but now Syria is facing many other challenges, including ...

The Syrian case is not the first time that SOS has received children who were forcibly disappeared. In El Salvador, in the 1980s, the U.S.-backed military attacked villages suspected of supporting a ...

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

Assad's former regime in Syria. As the investigation by Shane Bauer for the New York Times Magazine notes, the regime "disappeared" an estimated 100,000 people over the course of its 13-year civil war ...

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

President Bashar al-Assad of Syria had just been toppled by a lightning rebel offensive. In the chaos, a news crew filming outside a Syrian prison captured the image of an older man, disheveled ...

France's highest court ruled on Friday that an arrest warrant for former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad was invalid as it was issued when he was still in office, but said a new warrant can now be ...

Then-Syrian president Bashar al-Assad addresses reporters at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, on Dec. 9, 2010. Remy de la Mauviniere/Associated Press ...

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

-- President Bashar al-Assad of Syria is the center of attention in the aftermath of a United States airstrike against a Syrian air base where a chemical attack was initiated earlier this week.