Observers said more than 100,000 died in prisons and detention centres during the civil war. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The new head of Syria's intelligence services announced a plan to dissolve the institutions that were so feared under the ...

Syria’s new administration is carrying out a security crackdown against what it has described as “remnants” of former ...

Syria’s embassy in Lebanon suspended consular services Saturday, a day after two relatives of deposed Syrian President Bashar ...

Hundreds of members of the Syrian insurgent group that overthrew former President Bashar Assad marched through the streets of ...

That hope was boosted Friday with the news that Roger D. Carstens, the special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, had arrived in the capital city of Damascus along with two other top U.S.

By bnm Gulf bureau A Bahraini delegation led by Ahmad bin Abdulaziz al-Khalifa, head of the country's National Security ...

Assad's ouster, there are questions about the fate of the Syrian Democratic Forces, the U.S.-backed Kurdish coalition that ...

A visit to the souk in the old city in the Syrian capital of Damascus tell us a lot about the state of the country's current economy.

Former Syrian rebels who now serve as part of the new Syrian government's armed forces posed for portraits with their weapons ...

Syria's new government has been facing new challenges with unrest emerging in certain regions amid a growing number of ...

In the 12 years since Austin Tice was abducted in Syria, his family and his coworkers at McClatchy Media Company have grieved ...