Syria ’s new interim leader announced on Tuesday he was taking charge of the country as caretaker prime minister with the backing of the former opposition forces who toppled president Bashar al-Assad three days ago. In a brief address on state television, Mohammed al-Bashir, a figure...

A US indictment unsealed on Monday charged two former high-ranking Syrian officials under ousted President Bashar al-Assad with war crimes, the US Justice Department said in a statement. The indictment, which was unsealed in the Northern District of Illinois, charged the former Syrian...

Syrian opposition fighters told AFP they found around 40 bodies bearing signs of torture inside a hospital morgue near Damascus on Monday, stuffed into body bags with numbers and sometimes names written on them. “I opened the door of the morgue with my own hands, it was a horrific sight:...

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...