Bashar al-Assad

The local press focuses Thursday on the explosion in Damascus that killed Syrian Defense Minister Dawoud Rajha, President Bashar al-Assad's…

  Nearly 100 people were killed on Wednesday in violence across Syria, including 16 in Damascus, said the Syrian Observatory…

Police threw tear gas canisters at scores of Egyptian and Syrian activists demonstrating before the Syrian Embassy in the Garden…

Flights between Cairo and Damascus have not yet been affected by the events in Syria.

The UN Security Council postponed a vote Wednesday on a Western-drafted resolution calling for sanctions against Syria following a request…

BEIRUT — Syria's rebel commander says his forces carried out an attack in Damascus that killed the defense minister and…

Syria's defense minister and President Bashar al-Assad's brother in-law were killed in a suicide bomb attack in Damascus on Wednesday,…

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has moved army forces from the Golan Heights area next to Israel toward Damascus and other…

Syrian government forces encircled rebel fighters in Damascus on Monday, waging a second day of fighting that residents described as…

GENEVA  — The International Committee of the Red Cross says it now considers the conflict in Syria a civil war,…