How the rebels treat the sizeable Alawite population, will be some kind of litmus test of whether the takeover of Damascus ...

David Lammy branded Bashar al-Assad “the rat of Damascus” after the deposed Syrian dictator fled to Russia. The foreign secretary launched his angry broadside in the House of Commons as he ...

Angry protests broke out Wednesday in the heartland of deposed Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad's Alawite minority, a war monitor ...

In the early days of the Arab Spring uprisings, he marched in the streets and called for the fall of President Bashar al-Assad's brutal ... "That makes me really angry, and it made Mazen really ...

A protester has been killed in demonstrations which have broken out across Syria after a video showing an attack on an ...

The Kremlin has been forced to issue an embarrassing denial of allegations the former Syrian dictator's wife was leaving him.

Syria’s minority Alawite community is gripped by terror as reports spread of killings and disappearances under the country’s new Islamist rulers.

For years, they had seemed distant hopes. But hours after Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime collapsed, Almashi braved stormy weather to celebrate in his new home of London, surrounded by hundreds ...

Fierce clashes erupted on Thursday between security forces of Syria's transitional government and loyalists of ousted ...

Bashar al-Assad has stepped down as Syria's president ... The hardship triggered angry protests in territory under the government's control for the first time since the start of the uprising.

Syria's new government has detained military justice official Mohammed Kanjo Hassan, who issued death sentences at Saydnaya ...

Bashar al-Assad has stepped down as Syria's president ... The hardship triggered angry protests in territory under the government's control for the first time since the start of the uprising.