The Syrian factions that toppled President Bashar Assad last month have named an Islamist former rebel leader as the ...

The rebel coalition that seized control of Syria last month appointed its leader, Ahmad al-Sharaa, as president of the ...

Sharaa was already de facto head of Syria's government ever since a coalition of rebel fighters swept through most of Syria ...

With pills to calm his heart and CCTV monitoring his stairs, one man set out to hold politicians, police and even regime ...

Syria’s Civil Defense has uncovered over two dozen charred bodies in two basements in rural Damascus, adding to the growing ...

But such research was conducted while Assad was still in power, and it has only been several weeks since Assad fell. As a ...

Syrian phone shop owner Abdel Razzaq Hamra was thrilled to finally be working in peace after years of being harassed and ...

After rebel groups closed in on Damascus, it was reported on the 8th December that Syrian President Bashar as-Assad and his family had fled to Moscow. Leading the rebels was Ahmed al-Sharaa, the emir ...

Peter Ford served in the UK Foreign Ministry for many years including being UK Ambassador to Syria (2003-2006). He speaks ...

As sectarian tensions rise in Syria following the collapse ... The day after Assad's downfall last month, Ahmed al-Shara, the Islamist leader of the rebels who overthrew the regime, sent a ...

Ahmad al-Mansour has been living in Syria for years and was among the fighters that toppled Assad’s government. The ministry official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not ...

United Nations rights chief Volker Turk on Wednesday said transitional justice was "crucial" for Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, during the first-ever visit by someone in his post to the ...