In a stunning shift in Middle Eastern politics, Syria, under the leadership of Bashar al-Assad, has rejoined the Arab League ...

The bank-to-bank transfer using the SWIFT system was symbolically important, indicating the war-torn country was ...

More than a decade after being isolated by the Arab world for his brutal crackdown during Syria’s civil war, President Bashar ...

Maher al-Assad is wanted for war crimes and reportedly fled to Russia by way of Iraq as rebel forces took over Syria.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A Kurdish politician said on Wednesday that she had seen Maher al-Assad, brother of the ousted ...

A German court has handed down a life sentence to a Syrian doctor convicted of committing acts of torture as part of Bashar ...

The prosecution of Alaa Mousa relied on the legal concept of universal jurisdiction, under which normal rules on territorial ...

U.S. officials are investigating an uncorroborated account from a high-ranking former Syrian official that American freelance ...

On August 31, 2013, as French warplanes were en route to Syria to launch a joint operation with the US against the regime of ...

Premieres Tuesday, June 10, 2025 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Investigating the Assad regime's arrest, torture and ...

BERLIN (Reuters) -A German court is set to deliver a verdict on Monday in the case of a Syrian doctor accused of crimes ...

A German court sentenced a Syrian doctor to life imprisonment for killing two people and torturing nine in Syria between 2011 ...