A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved in suppressing the protests that started the 2011 ...

Atef Najib, a brigadier general and former head of the Political Security Department in Daraa, was arrested by General ...

Gunmen killed at least 10 people in Syria on Friday in an attack on a village from former president Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite ...

Syrian authorities have arrested a former senior security officer and cousin of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad credited by some with sparking the country's 2011 uprising due to a crackdown on protests ...

Najib was the head of political security in Daraa in southern Syria, under Assad’s regime. Syria’s nationwide uprising was sparked by the arrest and torture of children in Daraa, whom, the Observatory ...

BEIRUT, - Former allies and self-declared enemies of Syria's ousted president Bashar al-Assad are flooding the country's ...

Now, foreign countries are trying to steer Syria’s new de facto leaders toward an inclusive government free of sectarian ...

The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria has led Iran-allied factions in neighboring Iraq to reconsider their push for U.S. forces ...

Many in Iraq fear that IS could take advantage of the security vacuum to stage a comeback while Syria’s new leaders are still ...

All the armed factions in the country would be disbanded, Abdul Ghani said, and would be absorbed into state institutions.

Despite concerns around the destruction of documents and other indications of serious crimes committed in Syria under Bashar ...

Arab leaders have warmly welcomed Ahmed al-Sharaa as Syria's interim president, with close allies of his deposed predecessor ...