Finding the remnants of the old dictatorship and bringing them to justice has emerged as a top priority for the new ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin apologized for the deadly Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 crash on Christmas but did not ...

Syria's ousted dictator Bashar Assad and his family were members of the secretive religious minority, and used the ...

The DEM party's visit to Ocalan, in solitary confinement in an island prison since 1999, was their first in nine years.

Libya's Minister of Communications and Political Affairs arrived in Damascus on Saturday to hold meetings with Syria's ...

Lebanon expelled around 70 Syrian officers and soldiers on Saturday, returning them to Syria after they crossed into the country illegally via informal routes, a Lebanese security official and a war ...

From the largest war in Europe since World War II continuing in Ukraine to a series of escalations upending the Middle East, ...

That hope was boosted Friday with the news that Roger D. Carstens, the special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, had arrived in the capital city of Damascus along with two other top U.S.

Israel "does not need this territory, as the Israelis have already taken the Golan Heights," Vitaly Naumkin said ...

When rebels seized Hama on Dec. 6, their leader Ahmed al-Sharaa referred to it, saying they would "cleanse that wound that has persisted in Syria for 40 years". Rifat al-Assad helped Hafez al-Assad ...

It seems like just yesterday that leaders across Western Europe and North America were advertising their openness to ...

The name Basil II is remembered throughout Byzantine history as one of its most powerful and ruthless Emperors in battle.