From exile in Moscow, ex-intel chief Kamal Hassan and Assad cousin Rami Makhlouf are spending millions in competing efforts ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said his government’s coalition with Russia, Iran and Iraq must succeed in Syria’s civil war, suggesting the alternative to its survival is a region in chaos.

A newly revealed trove of photos depicts 10,000 people who had died in Bashar al-Assad’s brutal prison system during his last ...

President Donald Trump on Monday welcomed Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa to the White House as the administration moved to formally lift decades of U.S. sanctions on Damascus. The Treasury ...

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa arrived in the U.S. on Saturday for ahead of his landmark meeting with President Trump, his country's state news agency reported, a day after Washington removed him ...

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa is set to meet with Trump on Monday. The United States on Friday removed sanctions on Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, just one day after the United Nations Security ...

A new 20-minute CNN investigation by chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward centers on Austin Tice, who was captured and detained in 2012 by the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria. Tice is the ...

From the cellblock to statesman, the story of Syrian president Ahmed Al-Shara’s transformation is a rare one in the Middle East. Several weeks ago in New York City, I sat across from Ahmed al-Shara, a ...

There was no mistaking the reek of death that rose along the Syrian desert highway four nights a week for nearly two years. It was the smell of thousands of bodies being trucked from one mass grave to ...

New York Times reporters compiled a wide array of clues to uncover what happened to Bashar al-Assad’s key enforcers after the fall of the regime. The deserted villa of a former Syrian regime ...

An ongoing reporting project to uncover the roles and whereabouts of the key officials who powered President Bashar al-Assad’s brutal reign in Syria. By The New York Times The Syrian strongman Bashar ...

Syria’s President Ahmed Al-Sharaa will meet Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for the first time, as both countries seek to rebuild relations following the toppling of Syrian autocrat Bashar al-Assad ...