Assad's exile in Russia is a life of secluded luxury and political irrelevance, where he is wealthy and secure but silenced ...

DAMASCUS, Syria -- DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria started the process of circulating new currency bills on Saturday as the ...

Crowds could be seen gathering outside money exchange stores in the capital Damascus, where people swapped their old notes ...

JABLEH, Syria (AP) — Syria's interim government signed a deal Monday with the Kurdish-led authority that controls the country’s northeast, including a ceasefire and the merging of the main U.S.-backed ...

Bashar Assad’s cousin and Maher Assad’s daughter, Sham Assad, also appeared to celebrate her 22nd birthday with an ...

PARIS (AP) — France’s highest court on Friday upheld some of Syrian ex-leader Bashar Assad’s personal immunity as a head of state while green-lighting possible future war crime warrants, drawing ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — As celebrations kicked off marking the first anniversary on Monday of the ousting of former President Bashar Assad’s regime, Syrians are still struggling to heal after the ...

A Syrian army helicopter throws flowers and confetti on a group of demonstrators marking the 14th anniversary of the start of the uprising against Bashar Assad's regime in March 2011, in Umayyad ...

The ability of the U.S. to punish the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for allegedly launching chlorine weapons attacks may be limited despite “damning evidence,” a U.S. official said.

Throughout the Syrian war, President Obama has insisted that President Bashar Assad must go. But now, the U.S. may want, or even need, Assad to remain in power for a while longer so he can oversee the ...

A few years ago, a high-ranking U.S. intelligence official was asked what he most wanted to know about Bashar Assad, the Syrian leader. “Whether he’s Michael or Fredo,” he replied. “Whether Syria’s ...