The choice of cabinet officials was seen as a litmus test for whether the rebels who ousted Bashar al-Assad would deliver on ...

The Globe and Mail is not publishing Majed’s family name out of concern ... territory inside Syria since the fall of Mr. al-Assad’s regime – that it stood ready to “defend” Syria ...

Syria has seen the worst outbreak of violence since the ousting of former President Bashar al-Assad late last year, after armed men descended on Alawite heartlands on Thursday in what Syrian ...

Two days of fighting along the Mediterranean coast were among the bloodiest battles since rebels ousted the dictator Bashar al-Assad. By Christina Goldbaum Reporting from Damascus, Syria Clashes ...

The Islamist rebel group, led by interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa, toppled the government in December and ousted Assad, who immediately fled the country. It has since imposed Islamic law in ...

Al-Assad ruled Syria from 1971 until his death in 2000, and shared five children with Makhlouf, Bushra, Basil, Bashar, Majed and Maher. Makhlouf was born in 1930 to a powerful and wealthy family ...

Clashes between government security forces and supporters of ousted former President Bashar al-Assad have killed at least 311 people in Syria since Thursday, according to a monitoring group that ...

At least 400 people have been killed in northwest Syria after days of clashes between government forces and loyalists of former President Bashar al-Assad marked the deadliest violence since the ...

Majed Al Ansari, spokesperson for the Qatari ... The kingdom has been part of an Arab accommodation with Mr Al Assad, which started in the past three years but did not make much progress in ...