The Latest Breaking News from Bashar Assad

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 dynasty’s repressive 50-year rule and a 14-year civil war that killed an estimated half-million people, displaced millions more and left the country battered…

Close to 1.5 million Syrian refugees have voluntarily returned to their home country over the past year.

A U.S. operation in Syria last month mistakenly killed a man who had been working undercover against the Islamic State group, according to his family, a war monitor and officials

A United Nations Security Council delegation has visited Syria for the first time since the council's founding in 1945

Israeli forces have opened fire in southern Syria, killing at least 10 people, according to Syrian media and officials

The first trial has opened of some of the hundreds of suspects linked to deadly clashes in Syria's coastal provinces that quickly spiraled into sectarian attacks earlier this year

State media in Syria have reported that rockets fired at a home in Damascus have wounded one person and caused damage

Syria’s foreign minister has reopened the country’s embassy in London after more than a decade

Theft of Roman-era statues from Syria's national museum not by a gang, officials say

It’s been more than a decade since tens of thousands of photos started appearing online showing the broken bodies and torture sites under President Bashar Assad’s rule in Syria

Thieves have broken into the National Museum of Damascus and stolen several ancient statues from the Roman era