Syria will hold parliamentary elections in September, the head of a body tasked with organizing the election process told ...

The announcement comes amid mounting unrest, particularly after deadly clashes erupted in Suwayda province between Bedouin ...

Seven months of relative calm in Syria came to a bloody end last week, when what began as local skirmishes escalated into the ...

France's highest court is ruling on whether it can strip Bashar al-Assad, the former Syrian leader now in exile in Russia, of ...

France's highest court Friday annulled a French arrest warrant against Syria's ex-president Bashar al-Assad -- issued before ...

The Cour de Cassation upheld Assad’s head-of-state immunity, but added that since he is no longer in office, “new arrest ...

Syria’s most pressing challenge is resolving its deep domestic fractures. The fall of Assad has left a country with weak institutions, destroyed infrastructure, and a population divided along ...

Assad claimed in the statement Monday that he had no intention of fleeing Syria for Russia and that he wanted to keep fighting rebel forces. But he yielded to a request by Russia to evacuate after ...

Under Assad, Syria’s biggest regional benefactor was Iran, but since the Oct. 7 attacks, it has withstood Israeli military strikes and watched its Palestinian ally, Hamas, also weakened by Israel.

As Syria's economy collapsed during its civil war, the country became something of a narco state. The regime of ousted President Bashar al-Assad earned billions by trafficking in the drug Captagon.