SA's voting record on Syria reveals a troubling pattern of inaction, shielding Assad's regime amidst widespread human rights ...

The tumultuous collapses of Iraq, Libya and Syria offer stark parallels and contrasts, shedding light on the complex ...

Moral evangelists in power preaching about democracy and human rights resemble dowdy advocates of family values .

Russia has long offered asylum to disgraced leaders and defectors. This policy serves as a strategic tool for Moscow, ...

Syria's new government likely needs arms to solidify its hold on power. That's an opening for its Turkish backers.

Russia and the former Soviet Union were long the leading suppliers of military hardware to Syria under the rule of recently deposed President Bashar al-Assad and his father Hafez, who died in 2000.

Bouthaina Shaaban, a former translator for deceased Syrian president Hafez al-Assad and long-time political adviser to his son Bashar al-Assad, was similarly able to pass through Beirut airport ...

Rifaat, in his late 80s, was brother to Assad's father, the late president Hafez al-Assad, and led elite forces that crushed a 1982 Muslim Brotherhood uprising in the city of Hama, killing more ...

Rifaat al-Assad led forces that crushed Syrian revolt in 1982 Switzerland charged him with crimes against humanity BEIRUT, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Rifaat al-Assad, an uncle of the ousted Syrian leader ...

Syria The walls of the mausoleum for late President Hafez al-Assad are scrawled with graffiti now — things that Syrians have long felt but could never say aloud during his family’s five-decade ...

It was Asma’s mother, Sahar—whose great-uncle had helped Bashar’s father, Hafez al-Assad, seize power in Syria in the ’70s—who first angled for a union between the two, The Economist reported. Bashar ...