More countries than ever are going through the motions, with manifestos, candidates, polling stations and returning officers.

What began as protests against President Assad’s regime in 2011 quickly escalated into a full-scale war between the Syrian government—backed by Russia and Iran—and anti-government rebel ...

The Assad family owns real estate in Dubai, Moscow and London and has dozens of secret bank accounts. For example, British ...

A damaged portrait of Syria's ousted president Bashar al-Assad lies on the ground in the western Syrian port city of Latakia.

Ashok Ogra Bashar al-Assad of Syria has been ousted. In less than a week, anti-regime coalition forces drove the tyrannical ...

Every Syrian you speak to has known someone who disappeared into one of the regime’s 115 prison facilities. The dictatorship set examples of its cruelty in every possible community. Thinking of going ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a Time magazine Person of the Year event at the New York Stock ...

Dictators – whether in Spain, South Africa, Romania or Syria —retain power for decades. They can seem impregnable and invulnerable. But they always fall, and when they do fall the world acts ...

What comes next for Syria after the fall of the al-Assad dictatorship; what it means when one killer is celebrated and another is acquitted; and what could happen to American birthright citizenship.

Syrians in Ohio and Columbus are anxiously waiting to see what the future of their country holds after rebel groups toppled the regime of President Bashar al-Assad last weekend. Amr Al-Azm, 60 ...

THERE WAS joy and horror and anguish all at once. Many of the detainees freed from Saidnaya, the most notorious prison in Syria, were husks: skeletal frames, vacant stares. They staggered out of ...