DAMASCUS] Syria is seeing major new judicial moves as authorities pursue prosecutions against several prominent figures from the former regime, in what observers describe as an early step toward ...

Bashar al-Assad was the 19th president of Syria, entering office in 2000 succeeding his father Hafez al-Assad as the country's leader and as head of the Ba'ath Party. He was ousted in December 2024 by ...

Syria has opened its first public trial of officials linked to former President Bashar Assad. Atef Najib, a former army brigadier general, appeared in court Sunday.

QARDAHA, Syria (AP) — On the walls of the palatial mausoleum built to house the remains of former Syrian President Hafez Assad, vandals have sprayed variations of the phrase, “Damn your soul, Hafez.” ...

New government accused of ‘performative justice’ and making deals with suspects in 2013 Tadamon massacres ...

With the fall of the Assad regime in Syria and Hezbollah in Lebanon defeated and increasingly isolated, attention turns to the Houthis in Yemen. Perhaps the strongest remaining Iranian proxy force in ...

BEIRUT — Syria’s Defense Ministry announced Monday the completion of a military operation against remnants of the former Assad regime on the Syrian coast, where fighting between pro-Assad militias and ...

QARDAHA, Syria — On the walls of the palatial mausoleum built to house the remains of former Syrian President Hafez Assad, vandals have sprayed variations of the phrase, “Damn your soul, Hafez.” ...