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

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Assad’s wife Asma was born and raised in London before moving to Damascus and taking on an influential role in Syrian ...

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Iran's president claims the world has accepted that Iran has won its conflict with the United States. Iranian state media ...

Israel said it targeted a "terrorist" in southern Syria on Saturday in what Syria's foreign ministry said was a drone strike on a civilian vehicle on the outskirts of Damascus in a ...

After Syrian fighters opposed to Assad marched into Damascus to end the Assad family’s five-decade rule in December 2024, a ...

Who is Ahmad Hassoun, the ‘barrel bomb mufti’ close to the inner circle of the al-Assad regime?

Under former President Bashar Assad, Syria was believed to have operated an extensive undeclared nuclear program that ...

Living in exile and facing a death sentence, the former Syrian president's legacy is defined less by the reformer he was once ...