UN cites massive evidence linking Assad to Syrian war crimes

LONDON: Britain has called for stern action against Syrian president Bashar al-Assad for the appalling human rights violations that have been carried out, with his consent. The United Nations for the first time on Monday directly named Syrian ...

Syria will send a delegation to a January 22 Geneva peace conference under the orders of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, a foreign ministry source said on Wednesday. "Syria announces the participation of an official delegation under the orders of ...

Syria's Bashar al-Assad will remain president and lead any transition agreed upon in Geneva peace talks planned for next month, a government minister insisted today. If anyone thinks we are going to Geneva 2 to hand the keys to Damascus over (to ...

Syrian state media announced that Rami Makhlouf, a notorious business tycoon and cousin of President Bashar al-Assad, was quitting business and dedicating his wealth and life to charity and development projects in an apparent concession to one of ...

Pro-Assad forces are winning the war with rebels and will not allow a single terrorist on Syrian territory. That's according to the country's Prime Minister Wael Halki, who said this during his visit to Iran on Saturday. Earlier this week the UN ...

The Free Syrian Army began as a simple group of fighters battling Assad. But Ruth Sherlock, in Antakya, finds their mission is now making millions from bribery and extortion The Free Syrian Army commander leant against the door of his four-wheel ...

BEIRUT — Western countries which demand that President Bashar al-Assad step down should either stop dreaming or forget about attending peace talks in January, Syria said on Wednesday. Responding to an announcement that the long-delayed "Geneva 2" ...

It seems that when we can't face the truth, we devise our own. America did this in Iraq, believing that all civilized people when given a choice will become Jeffersonian democrats. We did not bargain on Iraqi factions having little interest in our ...

A senior Syrian regime delegation was today in Moscow to hold talks with top Russian diplomats on plans to hold a peace conference in Geneva to end the Syria conflict, the foreign ministry said. President Bashar al-Assad's presidential adviser ...