An old law from Syria's dictatorship is making life tough for human rights and aid organizations there. Is the Syrian interim ...

A compound in Lebanon housing people who fled Syria after Bashar Assad's fall has faced allegations of harboring Assad ...

A compound in Lebanon housing people who fled Syria after Bashar Assad’s fall has faced allegations of harboring Assad ...

Somewhat like my fellow National Post columnist Lorne Gunter who has written on the trial of Ontario homeowner Ian Thomson, I am perplexed beyond puzzlement why the Crown is prosecuting this man. For ...

Shamima Begum, who left London at 15 to join ISIS and married Dutch-born Yago Riedijk, is being held in a Syrian detention camp where a former guard says she could potentially be released ...

Syria’s government and Kurdish-led forces in the country’s northeast have clashed as President Ahmed al-Sharaa seeks to ...

Reps. French Hill (R-Ark.) and Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) introduced a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday that aims to disrupt production and trafficking of illegal drugs, including ...

Bashar al-Assad was the 19th president of Syria, entering office in 2000 succeeding his father Hafez al-Assad as the country's leader and as head of the Ba'ath Party. He was ousted in December 2024 by ...

Assad, uncle of deposed Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad and dubbed the "Butcher of Hama" for suppressing an uprising in the 1980s, has died aged 88, two sources close to the family said Wednesday. Once a ...

Rifaat al-Assad, who was the uncle of the deposed Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad and was known as the “Butcher of Hama” for ...

Rifaat al-Assad, uncle of deposed Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad and infamous for his brutal suppression of a Muslim Brotherhood uprising that earned him the nickname “the butcher of Hama”, has died at ...