Syria has a new interim government, but there is concern about how it will govern following contradictory remarks. Some groups, including women's rights advocates, are already testing the terrain.

The key defence and foreign affairs portfolios in Syria's transitional government go to prominent figures in the insurgency ...

The buffer zone between Syria and the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights was created by the U.N. after the 1973 Mideast war. A ...

Syria's de facto ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa hosted Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt on Sunday in another effort to reassure ...

Americans deserve better answers. Why is a president who said it’s a top priority to return American hostages not taking full ...

Syria’s leadership isn’t the only aspect of the country to be changing as a result of this month’s toppling of longtime ...

Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez, ruled Syria for more than half a century but how did one family achieve and maintain ...

Assad's Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shia Islam whose members make up one of Syria's biggest religious minorities. Alawites ...

Assad, who wielded fear and force over Syria for more than two decades, fled the country under the cover of night — and a ...

At a Damascus intersection, young volunteers act as unofficial traffic cops after police assigned to the duty deserted their ...

President Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia on December 8, leaving behind many of his collaborators, some of whom sought refuge in neighbouring countries. According to two sources, the ousted president, ...

The leader of the rebel forces group that took back Damascus from Bashar al-Assad will now rule without fear of a $10 million bounty the U.S. had on him.