President Bashar al-Assad

February 21, 2022

Turkey’s opposition leader looks to emerge from Erdogan’s shadow

ANKARA, Feb 21 (Reuters) – A veteran Turkish political leader who has struggled for years to have President Tayyip Erdogan…

June 4, 2021

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the international chemical weapons watchdog told the UN Security Council that its experts…

May 13, 2021

Syria has freed more than 400 civil servants, judges, lawyers and journalists detained this year in a crackdown on social…

March 2, 2021

PARIS (Reuters) – Lawyers representing survivors of a chemical weapons attack in 2013 in Syria have filed a criminal complaint…

December 23, 2020

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Tuesday slapped fresh sanctions on Syria, targeting its central bank and blacklisting several people…

December 2, 2020

GERA, Germany (Reuters) – Should former members of the Syrian security forces who have defected from President Bashar al-Assad’s government…

November 23, 2020

AMMAN (Reuters) – Syria’s President Bashar al Assad named veteran diplomat Faisal Mekdad as foreign minister on Sunday to replace…

November 10, 2020

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Monday imposed sanctions on officials, entities and individuals it accused of providing support…

November 6, 2020

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad said much of his country’s current economic distress is a direct result…

October 23, 2020

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Hundreds of mourners including Syria’s religious affairs minister attended a funeral in Damascus on Friday for the…