The Latest Breaking News from Bashar Assad

A humanitarian convoy on Sunday delivered urgently needed supplies to Syria's last opposition stronghold, a day before the UN Security Council is set to vote on a resolution that would determine whether aid deliveries to the war-stricken territory can continue. Syria’s conflict has killed hundreds of thousands and displaced half…

Thousands of Syrians held protests Friday in different parts of the opposition-held northwest against recent moves by the governments in Damascus and Ankara to improve ties. The protests in villages and towns in Idlib and Aleppo provinces came a week after the Turkish, Syrian and Russian defense ministers held previously…

Türkiye on Monday confirmed there are no plans for a meeting soon between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Syrian President Bashar Assad. “We don’t have an immediate plan for such a meeting, but our president is sending a message: If you act responsibly, if you address the security concerns and…

Dozens of demonstrators angry over worsening economic conditions in Syria stormed and ransacked the governor's office in the southern city of Sweida on Sunday, clashing with police, the authorities and witnesses said. Earlier, more than 200 people had gathered around the building in the center of the Druze-majority city, chanting…

Syria’s civil war, which entered its 11th year this March, may at first look like a clear-cut case of good versus evil, in which a bloodthirsty dictator, Bashar Assad, tries to snuff out any semblance of opposition to his rule. Yet, the conflict is far more complicated than that. Far…

I once went to the village of Koreme in Iraqi Kurdistan and walked along a dirt road past a little brick school and a makeshift mosque to a dusty field of almond trees and high grass where all the males of the village — age 13 to 43 — had…

This weekend's Turkish airstrikes targeting Kurdish fighters in northern Syria also threaten to stoke tensions with the Syrian government

A U.N. envoy is urging Western and Arab countries to lift sanctions imposed on Syria, warning that the measures are exacerbating “the destruction and trauma” Syrian civilians have been exposed to since the conflict began 11 years ago

A leading human rights group says hundreds of Syrian men and boys have been detained, beaten and forcibly returned to their country by Turkish authorities over a six-month period