Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was sentenced to death by a Damascus court on Tuesday, after being found guilty on charges of murder, torture and incitement to murder. His brother Maher ...

Syria's Bashar al Assad and his family have arrived in Russia and have been granted asylum by the Russian authorities, ...

[DAMASCUS] Four years after signing a judicial agreement with Russia, the stated purpose of which was to strengthen cooperation in pursuing criminal offenders and extraditing wanted individuals, ...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, speaking at the United Nations General Assembly Monday, said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must go. Russian President Vladimir Putin later told the same ...

Syria and Russia have spent the past 18 months negotiating the fate of Moscow’s military presence in Syria following the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in December 2024. On Sunday, at least part ...

Sentence is first to be handed down by Syria to toppled president Syrians celebrate in Deraa, birthplace of anti-Assad protests in 2011 Court also sentences Assad's brother Maher, ex-security official ...

The judge who sentenced Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia last week was himself sentenced to death in absentia by the same regime years earlier. Judge Fakhr al-Din al-Aryan ...

The Kremlin denied a claim by a senior negotiator Wednesday that Russia had offered in 2012 to make Syrian President Bashar al-Assad step down “in an elegant way”, saying it was against regime change.

A Syrian criminal court in Damascus has sentenced ousted president Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia after finding him guilty of killings, torture, arbitrary arrests and crimes against humanity ...

Britain's foreign intelligence chief says that Russia and the Syrian government are blocking efforts to end the war in Syria and defeat the extremist group Islamic State (IS) by treating all opponents ...

Syria would welcome an increased Russian military presence at its sea ports, President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview with Russian news channels published Friday. “I can say with complete ...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Russia's military intervention in support of President Bashar al-Assad has dismayed Gulf Arab enemies of the Syrian leader who say it will prolong the war and keep Syria firmly in ...