Bashar al-Assad

BEIRUT - A Syrian official and witnesses say Damascus is planting landmines along parts of the border with Lebanon.

AMMAN - The Arab League handed Syrian officials a plan for ending seven months of increasingly violent unrest against President Bashar al-Assad's rule, and Assad…

Opponents and supporters of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad clashed on Sunday outside the Syrian Embassy in Cairo. The violence started…

BEIRUT - Western powers risk causing an "earthquake" across the Middle East if they intervene in Syria, President Bashar al-Assad…

Syrian troops killed at least three people in Homs on Saturday, one day after security forces killed about 40 people…

The United States has pulled its ambassador out of Syria over security concerns after his cultivation of contacts with protesters…

Scores of Syrians in Alexandria demonstrated Sunday to protest President Bashar al-Assad’s ongoing crackdown on anti-government protests in Syria. Protesters…

Syrian security forces opened fire on a funeral procession for an activist in the oil-rich east on Sunday as they…

WASHINGTON, DC - A Syrian-born US citizen has been arrested and charged in Virginia with spying on anti-Syrian protesters in…

BEIRUT - A rights group says fresh clashes between Syrian soldiers and army defectors have left at least 17 members…