Bashar al-Assad

Al Qaeda's general command said on Monday it had no links with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant…

Syria's government has razed thousands of homes as "collective punishment" of communities that back the opposition in the capital Damascus…

 Talks aimed at ending the war in Syria took a first tentative step forward on Wednesday as both sides agreed…

The United Nations food agency is ready to deliver a month of rations to the Old City of Homs in…

 Syrian government and opposition delegations met briefly in the presence of international mediator Lakhdar Brahimi at the United Nations on…

Syria's first peace talks were on the verge of collapsing on Friday before they began, with the opposition refusing to…

Nearly 1,400 people have been killed in Syria since clashes between rebel forces and the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq…

Syria's government and its enemies come face to face on Wednesday for the first time as world powers try to…

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad told AFP in an exclusive interview Sunday there is a "significant" chance he will seek a…

Syrian state media dismissed as "not accurate" a report by news agency Interfax that President Bashar al-Assad told visiting Russian…