A former senior Syrian security official has told the FBI that American freelance journalist Austin Tice was killed in 2013 on the orders of President Bashar al-Assad, an account that has not been ...

Syrian rebels seized Damascus on Sunday, and long-time President Bashar Assad fled the battle-scarred country amid the stunning collapse of his regime after 13 years of war.

An American journalist who went missing in Syria more than a decade ago was executed on orders from then-President Bashar al-Assad. That's according to Major General Bassam Al Hassan, the man alleged ...

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TO GO WITH STORY BY NATACHA YAZBECK (FILES) A picture dated June 13, 2003 shows Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his brother Maher (L) attending their father's funeral in Damascus on June 13, 2000 ...

Barbara Plett reports for the BBC that Bashar al-Assad officially becomes president of Syria today. Al-Assad takes the oath before parliament as president of Syria after winning an overwhelming ...

Austin, a 1975 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, served in 2012 as the first Black vice chief of staff of the Army Senators confirmed President Biden’s nominee in a 93 to 2 vote.

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A Family’s Decadelong Search for Children Stolen by Assad’s Regime Documents reveal how Syria’s fallen government hid hundreds of abducted children during civil war Share Resize ...

Austin had been scheduled to travel to Brussels on Tuesday to attend a regular meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, a gathering of about 50 countries to coordinate military aid for Kyiv.

As I drove through the scorched countryside toward Aleppo — the first major city to fall in the final days of Bashar al-Assad’s regime — I passed through towns that looked suspended in ruin.