Bashar al-Assad

BEIRUT — Syrian troops stormed and shelled districts in a suburb of the capital Damascus Sunday, activists said, a day…

The secretary general of the Arab League said he would meet with the Syrian opposition at the league’s headquarters in…

President Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma were shown on Syrian state TV packing food aid, an apparent effort to…

BEIRUT — An advance team of six UN observers arrived in the Syrian capital to monitor the country’s cease-fire, which…

BEIRUT — Syria's ceasefire increasingly was under threat on Sunday as the government vowed a crackdown on a wave of…

Syrian troops shelled Saturday two rebel-held neighborhoods in the central city of Homs in an apparent violation of an internationally…

Syrian forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad fought rebels near the border with Turkey on Friday, threatening a ceasefire brokered…

BEIRUT - Syrian troops held their fire in the hours after a UN-backed ceasefire took effect at dawn on Thursday,…

TEHRAN — Special envoy Kofi Annan said Wednesday in Tehran that Iran could help solve the crisis in Syria, where…