Wang Yi highlighted that the international community could help alleviate Syria’s pressing humanitarian crisis ...

Bashar al-Assad confided in almost no one about his plans to flee Syria as his reign collapsed. Hours before he escaped for ...

Why universities are advising international students to return before Inauguration Day. And, the last NPR news quiz of the ...

The U.S. said it believes a person seen in a video circulating online could be Travis Pete Timmerman, an American who went missing from Hungary earlier in the year.

The Israeli air force has released footage from a recent attack on MiG-23 aircraft belonging to the Syrian Air Force. Reports ...

Tens of thousands of Syrians, mostly Shi'ite Muslims, have fled to Lebanon since Sunni Muslim Islamists toppled Bashar ...

DAMASCUS (AP) — Thousands of Syrians gathered Friday at Umayyad Square, the largest in Damascus, to celebrate after the first ...

Russia has reached an informal agreement with Syrian rebels, allowing it to maintain a presence at military bases in Hmeimim ...

Assad, our nation’s “father,” wasn’t born of loyalty; it was a survival tactic, rooted in generational terror that he was ...

Basim Faiz Mawat stood in the Damascus cell that his fellow prisoners used to call the "death dormitory", struggling to believe that the system that abused him for so long had been overthrown and his ...

Syrian army official who oversaw the notorious Adra Prison has been charged in the U.S. with torture after being arrested in ...

It is good that Bashar Al-Assad and his family dictatorship have been forced to flee Syria. In two generations, father and ...