Germany, France, Austria and several Nordic countries said Monday they would freeze all pending asylum requests from Syrians, a day after the ouster of president Bashar al-Assad. While Berlin and other governments said they were watching the fast-moving developments in the war-ravaged...

Sixty-one years of Baath Party rule in Syria collapsed on Sunday when the capital Damascus fell out of the hands of regime control. The Arab Socialist Baath Party had come to power in Syria in 1963, in a coup. In 1970, Hafez al-Assad – the father of Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s newly deposed...

Protesters brought down the statue of the late father of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in a main square in Jermana suburb, nearly ten kilometers from the center of Damascus, a witness and activists told Reuters. The protesters in the mainly Druze inhabited suburb, who called for the...

Zaman al-Wasl documented the names of 36 detainees who were freed by the Sweida local fighters on Friday from Sweida Central Prison in southern Syria. The Syrian website followed the video clips of their release from prison and extracted the names and then matched them with the...