The United Nations human rights chief has called for the lifting of Western sanctions imposed on Syria over its yearslong ...

NATO ally Turkey has emerged as the dominant state power in a new Syria, and is seeking to press its advantage by bombing and ...

In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

Syria's new central bank governor, Maysaa Sabreen, said she wants to boost the institution's independence over monetary ...

The UN human rights chief Volker Türk has described the unbearable suffering of former detainees under the deposed Assad ...

The first class of Syrian police cadets since the ouster of President Bashar Assad graduated on Tuesday from the newly ...

But Germany's foreign minister said sanctions against “Assad’s henchmen who committed serious crimes” must remain in place.

The rebel alliance that took power has vowed to prosecute senior figures from the ousted government, but accountability will ...

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

The incident, which left two members of the transitional security forces dead, marks the latest violent challenge to the new ...

Syria's new authorities have detained an Egyptian militant who had fought with Islamist forces against toppled Syrian leader Bashar Al-Assad's rule over threats he made on social media to the Cairo ...

An Assad official claims Putin betrayed his ally by promising support that never came.