Father Paolo Dall'Oglio, an Italian Jesuit priest and critic of Bashar al-Assad, disappeared in 2013 while negotiating with ...

Sky News has looked through burnt documents at Syria's political security prison where thousands were held - many for trivial ...

Urged by his family, the heir chose the status quo and consolidated his power by perpetuating his father's brutal methods ... Nicolas Sarkozy and Bashar al-Assad during a press conference at ...

Amid the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War and talks with Israel, Hafez al-Assad's top priority was ...

"I've never really talked about that, it was a secret. Only my family knew," said Hadid, now a father of five. In light of ...

Mehdi al-Shayesh thought he would quickly resettle in his central Syrian home town after Bashar al-Assad was ousted, but like ...

For many years, the Syrian desert was an incredibly dangerous place. Experts believe the last remnants of Islamic State are still there. But are they really?

On a street corner in the old town of Damascus, rugged men with rifles stare sharply at passers-by. Despite their appearance, ...

Only my family knew," said Hadid, now a father of five. In light of the December 8 ouster of Bashar al-Assad, "we can talk at last", he said. On February 2, 1982, amid an information blackout ...

At the heart of Hafez al-Assad’s rise to power was Mohamed Deeb Daboul ... safeguarded the regime against both internal and external threats. When Bashar Assad succeeded his father, Daboul continued ...