Bashar al-Assad

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AMMAN — Syrian artillery pounded rebel-held areas of Homs Monday as President Bashar al-Assad's government announced that voters had overwhelmingly…

Syria’s authoritarian regime held a referendum on a new constitution Sunday, a gesture by embattled President Bashar Assad to placate…

BEIRUT — Explosions shook several embattled Syrian cities on Sunday before polls opened for a vote on a new constitution that could keep President…

The Red Cross made a new attempt on Saturday to bring out people trapped in the besieged Syrian city Homs,…

AMMAN/BEIRUT — Western and Arab nations will demand that Syrian forces implement an immediate ceasefire to allow relief supplies to…

BEIRUT — Warnings from Syrian activists of a humanitarian catastrophe in Homs grew more desperate Thursday as government forces resumed…

BEIRUT — Syrian gunners pounded an opposition stronghold Wednesday where the last dispatches from a veteran American war correspondent chronicled…

BEIRUT — Syrian government forces killed more than 60 people on Tuesday in assaults on villages and an artillery barrage…

Syrian forces on Tuesday blitzed the flashpoint city of Homs and opened fire to disperse daring protesters in the capital,…