Veteran CNN reporter Clarissa Ward confirmed the Syrian "prisoner" in her now-infamous video report is notorious intelligence officer Salama Mohammed Salama. The prisoner's true identity was first ...

The long rule of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is over after rebels swept into the capital Damascus. The fighters declared the city “liberated” in a statement carried on state television.

A reformed rebel alliance saw minimal resistance as it retook Aleppo last week. LONDON -- I was in Aleppo, Syria, with rebel fighters when they first entered the city in 2012. It was the full ...