For decades, statues of Hafez al-Assad symbolized power and repression. Today, they fall as Syrians reclaim public spaces ...

That she’s soft on Russia isn’t even the biggest problem with her DNI nomination.

Having sided with Bashar al-Assad while a member of the Democratic Party, the former congresswoman's hard-right turn and ...

The summer home of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad was once off-limits to ordinary Syrians. Now people are lining up to visit ...

SHOCKING pictures have revealed Bashar al-Assad's trove of luxury vehicles worth millions of dollars in the fallen dictator's Presidential Palace in Damascus. The high-end collection features a ...

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United Nations rights chief Volker Turk on Wednesday said transitional justice was "crucial" for Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad ... on Syria under Assad's rule. "I... call for an urgent ...

“Revenge and vengeance are never the answer,” Türk said, a month after the Assad family’s decadeslong dynasty ended when insurgent groups captured Damascus. Türk said he met with Ahmad al ...

For more than a decade, some 6 million Syrians fled the Assad regime for other countries. Now, the opposite is happening. With the fall of that dictatorship last December, a new kind of refugee is ...