The Latest Breaking News from Bashar Assad

The World Bank says rebuilding Syria after over a decade of civil war could cost about $216 billion

The Syrian government and the main Kurdish-led force in the country's northeast have agreed in principle to merge the U.S.-backed force into the national army

When Syrian government forces entered the minority Druze enclave of Sweida this summer, it backfired

Officials say the victims were killed by Assad's forces in an ambush while fleeing eastern Ghouta during the recent civil war.

Search teams have found at least 25 bodies in a mass grave near Damascus, believed to contain around 175 bodies

The oil-rich states of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have a lot going for them: wealth, domestic stability and growing global influence. In recent months, these Gulf kingdoms also appear closer to something they have long sought: reliable U.S. support that has become stronger and more uncritical…

Experts say rainfall has been declining for decades in Syria, where a fledgling government is trying to stitch the country back together following 14 years of civil war.

The eastern Mediterranean and Middle East are in the grips of one of their worst droughts in decades, which is drying rivers and lakes, shriveling crops and even leading to water cutoffs in major cities

The United Nations' nuclear watchdog reports finding traces of uranium at a site in Syria