The Syrian military defector who documented atrocities committed by the Bashar Assad regime by smuggling tens of thousands of ...

AS NEWS OF the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime and the dictator’s flight spread over the weekend, many Syrians rushed to the public squares to celebrate. In Damascus, women draped in the ...

The security forces of the new Syrian authorities, which toppled the Assad government late last year, had been looking for Shaar and "raided sites where he had been hiding in the past few days ...

It was a clear reference to Bashar al-Assad, who had trained as an ophthalmologist. What followed is well documented: the arrest and torture of the brash youngsters; the humiliation of their ...

The Syrian whistleblower known as Caesar, who documented countless cases of human rights abuses during the time of the Bashar al-Assad government ... have “cardiac arrest” as a listed cause ...

Two months after the dramatic fall of Bashar Assad’s regime, Syria stands at a definitive juncture. The country, ravaged by years of brutal conflict, now faces the daunting task of rebuilding ...

Series'The al-Assad saga' (Part 3/4). 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 always to have one of his sons ...

Al-Madh'an recounted how he leaked documents exposing torture and killings in prisons of the Assad regime, which the Syrian opposition toppled on Dec. 8. Originally from Daraa, he worked as the ...

Russia’s attitude toward the new Syrian government has “improved significantly” since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad in December, and Damascus is weighing Moscow’s demands ...

President Trump sanctioned the International Criminal Court (ICC) Thursday over the tribunal’s arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav ...

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