The ex-dictator's methods are highlighted by tons of documents that weren't burned in the fall of the regime. Mamdouh, a ...

in the highest-level visit by major Western powers since Islamist-led forces toppled longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad last month. One of their first stops was the notorious Sednaya prison ...

In Damascus, French and German foreign ministers Jean-Noël Barrot and Annalena Baerbock called for a 'peaceful and rigorous' transition with de facto Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa.

EU crisis management chief Hadja Lahbib announced a 235 million euro aid package for Syria and neighbouring countries on ...

Both are wanted men. Maher – and Bashar al-Assad – are wanted by France for alleged complicity in war crimes over chemical attacks in Syria in August 2013. The French courts have already ...

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad (C) and wife Asma al-Assad (L ... in the U.K., a warrant is out for her husband's arrest in France for his alleged complicity in crimes against humanity and ...

Chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, met Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa on Friday, state ...

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday the West must not be naive about the new authorities in Syria after the ousting of Bashar al-Assad and promised France would not abandon Kurdish ...

Douma, near Damascus, endured years of terror under Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Sameer al-Doumy escaped, and thought he’d never ...

Rifaat al-Assad, an uncle of the ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad charged in Switzerland ... He has lived in Switzerland, Spain and France, where a court found him guilty in 2020 of acquiring ...

In post-Assad Syria, stand-up comedians are re-emerging to challenge taboos, mocking the former president and his regime and ...

European countries rapidly froze asylum claims after Assad's fall but Syrian refugees may have reason not to rush home ...