Assad, 49, will be unable to come back to her native London without her official travel documents amid reports she is severely ill with leukemia and has only a '50-50' chance of survival.

The new head of Syria's intelligence services announced on Saturday a plan to dissolve the institutions that were so feared ...

Syria's new intelligence chief Anas Khattab has announced the dissolution of all intelligence organizations and a fundamental ...

A Lebanese security official and war monitor said the country on Saturday expelled no fewer than 70 Syrian officers and ...

Meanwhile, Lebanese authorities handed over dozens of Syrian nationals, including former officers in the army, to the new ...

The new head of Syria's intelligence services announced on Saturday a plan to dissolve the institutions that were so feared under the rule of ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad.

Finding the remnants of the old dictatorship and bringing them to justice has emerged as a top priority for the new ...

Assad's uncle, Rifaat al-Assad, left the country via Beirut airport around a week ago, after rebels overthrew his nephew.

Many senior Syrian officials and people close to the former ruling family fled the country to neighbouring Lebanon after Assad's regime was toppled.

That hope was boosted Friday with the news that Roger D. Carstens, the special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, had arrived in the capital city of Damascus along with two other top U.S.

Rifaat al-Assad, an uncle of the ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad charged in Switzerland with war ... saying they would "cleanse that wound that has persisted in Syria for 40 years". Rifat ...

Assad's ouster, there are questions about the fate of the Syrian Democratic Forces, the U.S.-backed Kurdish coalition that ...