There were highly charged scenes as former senior regime official, Atef Najib, appeared before a Damascus court.

Bashar al-Assad was the 19th president of Syria, entering office in 2000 succeeding his father Hafez al-Assad as the country's leader and as head of the Ba'ath Party. He was ousted in December 2024 by ...

Assad, Kurdish families struggle with cold, loss and uncertainty — feeling abandoned by the U.S. allies they once fought ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People celebrate and wave Syrian flags as they mark the first anniversary of the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Damascus ...

Atef Najib, ex-head of political security in Deraa province, is charged with ‘crimes against the Syrian people’.

Formerly sentenced to death, Judge al-Aryan now oversees trial, but transitional justice still far from complete.

Sharaa's forces swept into Damascus in December 2024 and ended the rule of Russian-backed Bashar al-Assad's half-century ...

A former Syrian prison official was convicted by a U.S. federal jury in Los Angeles Monday on torture and immigration fraud charges after prosecutors said he oversaw and at times personally carried ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Bashar al-Assad, who was president of Syria from 2000 to 2024. 1994 – Syrian President Hafez Assad’s oldest son and heir apparent, Basel, dies in a car accident.

Syrian human rights activist Ribal al-Assad tore into Europe for lifting sanctions against the nation’s new "terrorist" regime, which he warned is no better than his first cousin, ousted leader Bashar ...

Rifaat al-Assad, the brother of the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad known by critics as the “butcher of Hama” for crushing an Islamist uprising in the city in 1982 before unsuccessfully ...