According to five Lebanese officials who spoke on condition of anonymity, Rasha Hazem, wife of Duraid Assad, and their ...

Observers said more than 100,000 died in prisons and detention centres during the civil war. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Finding the remnants of the old dictatorship and bringing them to justice has emerged as a top priority for the new ...

Syria’s new administration is carrying out a security crackdown against what it has described as “remnants” of former ...

Syria’s embassy in Lebanon suspended consular services Saturday, a day after two relatives of deposed Syrian President Bashar ...

The wife and daughter of one of deposed Syrian president Bashar Assad’s cousins were arrested Friday at the Beirut airport, where they attempted to fly out with allegedly forged passports, Lebanese ...

Many senior Syrian officials and people close to the former ruling family fled the country to neighbouring Lebanon after Assad's regime was toppled.

That hope was boosted Friday with the news that Roger D. Carstens, the special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, had arrived in the capital city of Damascus along with two other top U.S.

Rifaat al-Assad, an uncle of the ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad charged in Switzerland with war crimes over the bloody suppression of a revolt in 1982, has flown from Beirut to Dubai in recent ...

Assad's ouster, there are questions about the fate of the Syrian Democratic Forces, the U.S.-backed Kurdish coalition that ...

A visit to the souk in the old city in the Syrian capital of Damascus tell us a lot about the state of the country's current economy.

Lebanese officials say the wife and daughter of one of deposed Syrian president Bashar Assad’s cousins have been arrested at ...