A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved in suppressing the protests that started the 2011 uprising has been detained inside Syria, according to state news agency SANA.

The arrival of the first top Russian diplomat in Damascus since Bashar al-Assad’s fall kicks off negotiations over the fate of Moscow’s bases in Syria. By Paul Sonne and Christina Goldbaum ...

Syria’s new authorities have announced the arrest of Atif Najib, a former senior security officer and cousin of ousted President Bashar al-Assad. Najib is seen by many as being responsible for ...

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Syrian authorities have arrested a former senior security officer and cousin of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad credited by some with sparking the country's 2011 uprising due to ...

Syria's interim president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, landed in Saudi Arabia on Sunday for his first international trip since his rebel militant group ousted former President Bashar al-Assad in December.

DAMASCUS - Syrian authorities have arrested a former senior security officer and cousin of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad seen by some as responsible for sparking the country's 2011 uprising due to ...

How did Assad gain power? Through old-fashioned dynastic succession. He became president in 2000 after the death of his father, Hafez al-Assad ... His glamorous wife, Asma, was born to Syrian ...

Only my family knew," said Hadid, now a father of five. In light of the December 8 ouster of Bashar al-Assad, "we can talk at last", he said. On February 2, 1982, amid an information blackout, Assad's ...