The Latest Breaking News from Bashar Assad

The president’s wife was previously treated for breast cancer

Landmark trial in Paris as Syrian officials face charges for torture and killings during civil war.

A strike on the Syrian capital destroyed a building used by the Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, Syrian and Iranian state media reported. One of those killed was a local Hezbollah commander

The killing of Seyed Razi Mousavi, a long-time adviser of the Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, comes as clashes along the Lebanon-Israel border between Hezbollah and Israel intensify.

Jordanian troops have clashed with dozens of drug smugglers along the country's northern border with Syria, leaving several dead including one soldier while another was wounded

The United Nations’ top court has ordered the Syrian government to “take all measures within its powers” to prevent torture

French judicial authorities have issued international arrest warrants for Syrian President Bashar Assad, his brother Maher, and two army generals alleging their involvement in war crimes and crimes against humanity, including in chemical attacks in 2013 on rebel-held Damascus suburbs, lawyers for Syrian victims said

The Netherlands and Canada are taking Syria's government to the United Nations’ highest court, accusing Damascus of massive human rights violations against its own people

Family members of some of the victims of a deadly drone attack on a crowded military graduation ceremony that killed scores have gathered outside a military hospital in the central Syrian city of Homs to collect the bodies of their loved ones