Former regime fighters tell the BBC they want to regain civilian status and had nothing to do with atrocities.

The new head of Syria's intelligence services announced on Saturday a plan to dissolve the institutions that were so feared under the rule of ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad.

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 ...

A senior official from Libya's UN-recognised government met Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus on Saturday and ...

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

From the largest war in Europe since World War II continuing in Ukraine to a series of escalations upending the Middle East, ...

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.

When rebels seized Hama on Dec. 6, their leader Ahmed al-Sharaa referred to it, saying they would "cleanse that wound that has persisted in Syria for 40 years". Rifat al-Assad helped Hafez al-Assad ...

It seems like just yesterday that leaders across Western Europe and North America were advertising their openness to ...

Following the fall of the Syrian regime, the Islamic State is exploiting power vacuums to rebuild as Turkey positions itself ...