UNITED NATIONS — Three months following the overthrow of President Bashar Assad, Syria is at a crossroads, the top U.N. envoy for the country said Tuesday. Geir Pedersen told the U.N. Security ...

BERLIN (AP) — The German and Austrian interior ministers broke off a planned trip to Syria on Thursday because of a possible ...

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Belarusian President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, Europe’s brutal last dictator, has been named 2021’s Person of the Year by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) in recognition of ...

The Syrian capital, Damascus, is regaining some of the spirit that was almost lost after years of war. With the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime, the city is breathing again and this year's Eid al ...

Oscar-nominated Syrian director Feras Fayyad on the fall of Bashar al-Assad, the dictator who ordered Fayyad's imprisonment ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — (AP) — Syria’s new transitional government was sworn in Saturday nearly four months after the Assad family was removed from power and as the new authorities in Damascus ...

Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa on Friday appointed Osama al-Rifai, a moderate Muslim cleric known for having opposed now ousted ruler Bashar al-Assad, as the country's grand mufti.

AMSTERDAM, March 28 - Chemical weapons inspectors have been taken by Syria's caretaker authorities to previously unseen production and storage locations dating from the rule of Bashar al-Assad ...