Bashar al-Assad

DOHA/CAIRO — Syria's newly named opposition leader, a soft-spoken cleric backed by Washington and the Gulf Arab states, launched his quest…

Syria's fractious opposition finally put aside fierce arguments to rally behind a new leader within a new coalition that its…

  Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the International Criminal Court's former prosecutor, said that world leaders had a "good case" for asking NATO…

DOHA — President Bashar al-Assad said he would "live and die" in Syria and warned that any Western invasion to…

Turkey will imminently lodge an official request with NATO asking the military alliance to deploy Patriot missiles along its border…

Syrian rebels fired mortars at President Bashar al-Assad's palace in Damascus on Wednesday but missed, in an attack underlining the…

Deadly explosions struck a Damascus district housing members of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's Alawi sect live and gunmen killed the…

Russia on Monday endorsed an Egyptian initiative to reconvene four Middle East powers to try to resolve the Syrian crisis…

Moscow is supplying arms to Syria under Soviet-era commitments, and were meant for defense against external threats, not to support…

Syrian rebels said on Wednesday they had begun arming sympathetic Palestinians to fight a pro-Assad faction in a Palestinian enclave…