COLUMN. The Syrian transition, underway for the past year, must avoid sliding back into the kind of brutal authoritarianism ...

Syrians went to the polls Sunday to elect a new parliament in the midst of a coronavirus outbreak and a deepening economic crisis, as President Bashar al-Assad attempts to strengthen his political ...

The collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian regime and the increase in Russian Libya involvement may seem like unrelated phenomena. However, Russia’s shift towards Libya is a direct reaction to Bashar al ...

(CNN) — In the weeks since Bashar al-Assad was ousted as Syrian leader, Russia has launched multiple flights to an airbase in the Libyan desert. CNN — (CNN) — In the weeks since Bashar al-Assad was ...

After more than a decade of instability, U.S. and European majors such as ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, BP, and Eni are ...

DAMASCUS — Hundreds of Syrian politicians and activists gathered Tuesday in Damascus to endorse the opening steps of the country’s political transition, a milestone event after decades of ironfisted ...

Syrian nationals wait at a service office in Tripoli after the Syrian foreign ministry announced it would grant free return tickets to its citizens wishing to leave Libya — Mahmud Turkia Hundreds of ...

Ironically, however, the U.S., Israel, Europeans, the UAE and some other Arab states also want to save Assad, and so the only ...

Unable to assuage their grievances with empty promises of reform, Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad this week adopted the “Tiananmen Model” of dealing with a popular protest movement. Like the Chinese ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Now that he has called for Syria's leader to leave, U.S. President Barack Obama faces the daunting challenge of smoothing the way to a post-Assad era -- just as another Arab ...

FOR MORE THAN five months, Syrians have been stepping out of their homes and mosques with unfathomable bravery in a quest for freedom and human rights. Bashar al-Assad, the inheritor of a regime that ...