Syrian President Hafez al-Assad advised Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the strongman of the region at the time, to communicate with his son and heir to the presidency, Bashar al-Assad.

The rebel chief who led the overthrow of the longtime dictator Bashar al-Assad has been declared the head of government for a ...

But Bashar al-Assad’s recent horrific chemical-weapon ... instead using Hezbollah in Lebanon to apply kinetic pressure. During the 1990s, one could debate whether Iran or Syria exercised more ...

Syria was the dominant power in Lebanon for three decades under the Assad family, with president Hafez al-Assad intervening in its 1975-1990 civil war and his son Bashar al-Assad only withdrawing ...

Donald Trump’s pick to oversee 18 intelligence agencies with a $100 billion spy budget is facing renewed scrutiny over an unannounced trip to Syria in 2017 where she met with the now-deposed dictator ...

Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa met Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati in Damascus on Saturday in a bid ...

When Syrian grandfather Omar Kafozi returned to his house near Damascus after Bashar al-Assad's ouster, he saw unfathomable ...

Trump’s nominee for director of intelligence said, under oath, that she was not aware “until today” that a prominent cleric ...

It already appears evident that the days of Russia serving as its leading arms supplier have come to an ignominious end.

Gabbard’s 2017 trip to Syria, where she met with authoritarian leader Bashar al-Assad, is expected to be a focus of questions from senators weighing her nomination to be director of national ...