The judge who sentenced Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia last week was himself sentenced to death in ...

Bashar Assad and his brother were sentenced for crimes against humanity during Syria's 14-year conflict that left about half ...

Verdict relates to atrocities committed during the country’s 14-year civil war in which about 500,000 people died ...

A Syrian court handed death sentences to Bashar al-Assad and his brother Maher — both in absentia — alongside their cousin ...

The ruling is the first of its kind under Syria’s transitional leaders, who pledged accountability for crimes committed under Bashar al-Assad.

Assad's 24-year rule of Syria ended abruptly in December 2024 following a lightning advance by rebel forces who struck while the Russian and Iranian allies who had backed him through years of civil ...

Syria is trying to shake off the past while building a future on unsteady ground, and there are no easy answers on how to ...

Damascus has suffered little blowback from the Iran War, and the blockade of the Persian Gulf may make Syria an alternative energy route. After the fall of Assad, Syria spent most of 2025 trying to ...

While Israel has largely abstained from direct involvement in the Syrian civil war, it has a vested interest in the conflict’s outcome. The continued conflict has not only killed tens of thousands of ...

French President Emmanuel Macron has arrived in Syria, becoming the first major western leader to visit since Bashar al-Assad's ouster in 2024.

BEIRUT — Ahed Badawi lived for more than a decade in Bahrain, a small Persian Gulf country that, unlike her native Syria, rarely made headlines. It provided a refuge for her, her sister and their ...

Iran conflict has disrupted routes over Gulf Data shows surge in flights over Syria in May The shift marks return by Gulf airlines to Syrian skies European, US airlines still avoid Syrian airspace ...