Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday hailed Donald Trump as the “best American president” for his “transparency” regarding his stated desire to maintain U.S. control of the Middle Eastern nation’s lucrative oil fields. “I tell you he’s the best American president. Why?...

The family of detainee Mohamed Mahmoud Al-Suwaidan received his death certificate on Tuesday after being held by regime military intellignce last year and locked up in notorious Saydnaya prison north of the capital. Activists said that Al-Suwaidan was arrested and detained in Saydnaya...

Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad said on Thursday that his regim’s ultimate goal was to restore state authority over Kurdish controlled areas in northeast Syria after an abrupt U.S. troop withdrawal but he expected it to happen gradually. In a state television interview Assad also said...

By claiming a right to Syria's oil, President Donald Trump has added more complexity — as well as additional U.S. forces and time — to an American military mission he has twice declared he was ending so the troops could come home. Extending the mission to secure eastern Syria's...