Samir Ousman Alsheikh, 72, allegedly ran Damascus Central Prison from 2005 to 2008, where detained opponents of Assad were ...

The former head of a notorious Syrian prison was charged Thursday in the United States with torturing opponents of the ...

The Assad regime hid some of its deadly nerve agents from inspectors. With Syria in chaos, finding out what happened to the ...

NBC News gained exclusive access to the marble atrium and wood-lined library of the deposed president's former residence.

Top U.S. officials are in the Middle East pressing for stability in Syria and an end to Israel’s 14-month war in the Gaza ...

The deputy executive director of the U.N. World Food Program has been on whirlwind visits to hotspots in the Middle East and Sudan to assess dire humanitarian situations and ...

Assad’s fall nine years after Russia saved his regime is a stunning blow to Putin’s goal of forging Russia into a world power ...

For Dima Kedraki, a Syrian American living in Orange, she is happy but anxious about the fall of the Assad regime. She was ...

A hip bone in a blown-out building, part of a spine amid some debris, a few foot bones in a worn-out sock. The Tadamon ...

Now covered in ashes and empty bullet casings, the grand mausoleum of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's family stood ...

Travis Timmerman appears to have been among thousands of people released from the country’s notorious prisons after rebels ...

An American citizen detained in Syria was freed on Thursday after rebels overtook the city of Damascus, toppling the rule of ...