Officers say the move aims to instil a sense of morality as they race to fill a security vacuum after dismantling ousted president Bashar al-Assad's notoriously corrupt and brutal security forces.

But Syria isn’t the only instance where Russian military power has taken a hit. British journalist Patrick Seale’s book Asad of Syria: The Struggle for the Middle East (1989) offers crucial ...

“You can walk around Damascus now without encountering checkpoints, without having to see pictures of Bashar al-Assad everywhere,” said Bassam al-Kuwatli, president of the Syrian liberal party Ahrar. ...

This marks a new phase in Russian expansion on the African continent, after the loss of its positions in Syria following the fall of the regime of Bashar al Assad. According to the Italian agency, the ...

Camera: MOHAMMED AL RIFAI. FOOTAGE OF THE TOPPLED STATUE OF HAFEZ AL-ASAD, FORMER SYRIAN PRESIDENT AND FATHER OF BASHAR AL-ASAD, WHO WAS OVERTHROWN AFTER A REBEL OFFENSIVE LAST DECEMBER.

On the day Bashar al-Assad fled Syria as his army collapsed, there was the briefest of celebrations at the organization that had spent the previous 12 years collecting evidence of the regime’s ...

A Syrian monitor on Friday reported that fighters associated with the Islamist-led transitional administration publicly executed a local official on Friday, alleging he had been an informant for the ...

Turkish human rights lawyers representing Syrians have called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to urgently issue arrest warrants for Bashar al-Assad and 17 senior officials for war crimes and ...

Bashar al-Assad, an ophthalmologist who graduated from Damascus University (Syria) and specialised at the Western Eye Hospital in London (UK), had a sudden career shift to politics and became Syria's ...

The Tishrin Dam has become a flashpoint in the conflict between Kurdish forces and Turkish-backed armed groups, which has intensified in the weeks since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar ...

In a rare admission, a top general has said Iran was “defeated very badly” in Syria and flagged the failures of deposed leader Bashar al-Assad and ally Russia. In a speech at an event at a mosque in ...

Katelyn Fossett is a senior editor at POLITICO Magazine. As executive director of the Syrian Emergency Task Force, a nonprofit established to respond to attacks on civilians by former dictator ...