Syria’s ousted leader Bashar Assad claimed on Monday that he took refuge at a Russian base during the dramatic fall of the decades-long Baath regime earlier this month. Assad, who ruled Syria for nearly 25 years, fled to Russia on Dec. 8 after anti-regime groups seized control of the...

The Syrian Response Coordinators Team confirmed that many Syrian regions are witnessing explosions of war remnants and mines, specifically in areas previously controlled by the Assad regime, causing many civilian casualties and injuries. The team stressed in a report that the widespread...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights said that the sanctions imposed on the Assad regime were due to the crimes against humanity and war crimes it has committed since March 2011, and due to the failure of the UN Security Council to stop the atrocities, US, EU, and a number of countries imposed...

Germany on Monday urged Israel to "abandon" a plan to double the population living in the occupied and annexed Golan Heights at the southwestern edge of Syria. A foreign ministry spokesman said "it is perfectly clear under international law that this area controlled by Israel belongs to...