Days before his troops overthrew the regime of Bashar Assad ... relatives to power. Assad inherited Syria from his father, Hafez, and made his brother Maher head of the fourth division, while ...

In Syria, President Bashar al-Assad has been re-elected for a fourth term after securing 95.1 percent of the votes in the Presidential elections. According to state media, official results have shown ...

is the first in the country’s five-year transitional period and replaces the interim government that was formed shortly after Bashar Assad was removed from power in early December. The Cabinet ...

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days.

BEIRUT (AP) — The death toll from two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and loyalists of ousted President Bashar Assad and revenge killings that followed has risen to more than ...

The death toll from two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and loyalists of ousted President Bashar Assad and revenge killings that followed has risen to more than 1,000, a war ...

Syria's leader vowed on Sunday to hunt down the perpetrators of violent clashes pitting loyalists of deposed President Bashar Assad ... continued for a fourth day in Assad's coastal heartland.

Residents described shootings outside their homes and bodies in the streets in Syria’s worst unrest since Bashar al-Assad’s ouster. More than 1,000 people have been killed since Thursday ...