Defense Minister Lt. Gen. Ali Abbas and Maj. Gen. Bassam Merhej al-Hassan, head of Bashar Assad’s office and the man in charge of his security, are accused of human rights violations.

Jamil Hassan, referred to as "the butcher" by people who lived on his street, is among the senior regime figures who have ...

Security forces for Syria’s new government were pursuing at least one senior official and military forces loyal to the former ...

Lebanese officials say the wife and daughter of one of deposed Syrian president Bashar Assad’s cousins have been arrested at ...

Former regime fighters tell the BBC they want to regain civilian status and had nothing to do with atrocities.

A former top military official who issued death sentences for detainees in Damascus’s Sednaya prison has been arrested by ...

Finding and bringing to justice remnants of the dictatorship is a priority for the new administration. Read more at ...

Syria’s new government is searching for a senior official from the Assad dictatorship and for military forces loyal to the ...

"The armed forces realized that they were fighting without a cause," al-Hassan told UPI in a phone interview from Damascus. The war, he said, could have stopped in 2017 if Assad had accepted an ...

A lightning rebel offensive early this month caught Syria’s ruling clan off guard. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fled to ...

Fierce clashes erupted on Thursday between security forces of Syria's transitional government and loyalists of ousted ...

Credit: AP/Hassan Ammar In an apparent effort to prevent members of Assad's government from escaping, the security officials said a Lebanese officer who was in charge of Masnaa was ordered to go ...