By 2012, peaceful demonstrations had escalated into a full-fledged civil war. Turkey-backed Syrian National Army and U.S.-backed Kurdish rebel groups later became another major challenger for Bashar ...

Assad’s army had collapsed in Aleppo, his brother told him, unraveling in the face of insurgents who were marching towards ...

United Nations rights chief Volker Turk on Wednesday said transitional justice was "crucial" for Syria after the fall of ...

The new interim Syrian government says it will hunt down and punish senior security officials and others, but concern is ...

In a Damascus courtyard, Syrian activists brainstormed strategies to ensure their country does not return to authoritarianism ...

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk arrived in Syria's capital, Damascus, on Tuesday for the first ...

The meteorological drought that swept through the Fertile Crescent (stretching from the Tigris and Euphrates to the Nile Valley) in the 2000s finally ...

Analysis: Assad's fall and the rise to power of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham has left Egypt wary about future ties after a decade of ...

Saudi Arabia on Sunday called for the lifting of sanctions on Syria after meetings with top diplomats from the Middle East ...

Germany’s foreign minister announced an additional 50 million euros for food, emergency shelters and medical care.

The country's new rulers have been pushing for sanctions relief since overthrowing Bashar al-Assad's government last month ...

Austin Tice, an American journalist, was abducted in Syria in 2012 and has been missing since. The fall of the Assad regime is a chance to find him.