An American who turned up in Syria says he was detained after crossing into the country on foot seven months ago on a ...

Syrian government falls in a stunning end to the 50-year rule of the Assad family. Notre Dame Cathedral hosts first Mass ...

As rebels swept into Damascus last week, toppling former President Bashar al-Assad, his army simply collapsed, abruptly ...

Since the shock collapse of Assad's government over the weekend, Israel has moved troops into the buffer zone on the Syrian ...

Samir Ousman Alsheikh, 72, allegedly ran Damascus Central Prison from 2005 to 2008, where detained opponents of Assad were ...

Bombardment, looting and disuse have wreaked an uncertain toll on the country's former synagogues and Jewish sites.

The indictment was the second time in a week that the Justice Department announced that it had charged top Syrian officials ...

The former head of a notorious Syrian prison was charged Thursday in the United States with torturing opponents of the ...

The U.S. said it believes a person seen in a video circulating online could be Travis Pete Timmerman, an American who went missing from Hungary earlier in the year.

The 35 or so bodies were found in a military hospital in the Syrian capital of Damascus, days after the regime fell. They are ...

Assad's Syrian regime has thrown light into the dark corners of his rule, including the industrial-scale export of the banned ...