Bashar al-Assad

Even as the Assad regime pursues Syria’s descent into a sectarian wasteland, its cruelty cannot obscure a discernible shift in…

AMMAN/BEIRUT — More than 200 Syrians, mostly civilians, were massacred in a village in the rebellious Hama region when it…

DAMASCUS — UN peace envoy Kofi Annan said he and President Bashar al-Assad agreed on Monday on an approach to…

Many have criticized the “hasty” Arabic literature that has emerged in the last 16 months, blossoming in both bookstores and…

Syrian forces bombarded a string of towns in Aleppo province on Saturday, a day after global powers gathered in yet…

YAYLADAGI, Turkey — Syrian artillery pounded a northwestern town on Wednesday and areas near the ghost city of Douma, where…

  Syrian President Bashar al-Assad regretted that his country's defense forces shot down a Turkish fighter jet on 22 June,…

Syria-based rebel fighters and activists said they would boycott an opposition meeting in Cairo on Monday, denouncing it as a…

Mohamed ElBaradei, representative of the founders of Al-Dostour Party, condemned the ongoing massacres perpetrated by Bashar al-Assad’s regime on the…

BEIRUT — Syrian opposition groups on Sunday rejected a UN-brokered peace plan for a political transition in Syria, calling it…