Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad were allegedly communicating before rebels took over the Syrian government in December.

From Donald Trump being shot at a campaign rally to Bashar al-Assad's shock overthrow, Newsweek writers on the moment of 2024: plus have your say. "I believe there will be violent fighting ...

As President Biden prepares to leave office, he has sought to take credit for the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria. That may or may not be justified, but Biden is grasping for anything in the world for which he can claim credit. He leaves behind a remarkably weak foreign policy record.

Syria’s new leadership may have just nixed a 49-year sweetheart naval base deal between ousted authoritarian leader Bashar al-Assad and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Gabbard’s 2017 trip to Syria, where she met with authoritarian leader Bashar al-Assad, is expected to be a focus of questions from senators weighing her nomination to be director of national intelligence.

Syria, a country in Southwest Asia on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, was deeply affected by the Arab Spring protests that swept through many nations in the Middle East and North Africa in 2010 and 2011. These were anti-regime, pro-democracy ...

While Russian ally Bashar al-Assad was being toppled by rebels in Syria, another friend of Moscow, President Faustin-Archange Touadéra, was being chaperoned by Kremlin-backed mercenaries in the conflict-ridden Central African Republic (CAR),

The Kremlin has dismissed previous Western claims that Russia sponsored acts of sabotage and attacks in Europe

French investigating magistrates have issued an arrest warrant against ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad for suspected complicity in war crimes, notably the launch of a deliberate attack on civilians,

The French judiciary on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant for ousted Syrian leader, Bashar al-Assad on suspicion of complicity in war crimes, especially relating to the death of a French-Syrian man in 2017.

Assad, the ophthalmologist-turned-dictator who ruled Syria with an iron fist. This video examines his early promises of reform, the brutal suppression of dissent during the Damascus Spring, and his role in one of the most devastating civil wars in modern history.

Syria's new authorities have detained an Egyptian Islamist militant who fought against Bashar al-Assad's rule over threats he made to the government in Cairo, a Syrian interior ministry source and ...