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 ...

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The fall of longtime strongman Bashar al-Assad has created a power vacuum that threatens some of the United States' ...

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