The prosecution of Alaa Mousa relied on the legal concept of universal jurisdiction, under which normal rules on territorial ...

A Syrian doctor who had practised in Germany was sentenced to life in prison by a German court on Monday for crimes against ...

U.S. officials are investigating an uncorroborated account from a high-ranking former Syrian official that American freelance ...

The Israeli army says two rockets have been fired from Syria into open areas in the Israel-controlled Golan Heights.

An American journalist who went missing in Syria more than a decade ago was executed on orders from then-President Bashar ...

It has been six months since Syria broke free from 53 years of repressive rule. Now a former al Qaeda militant, Ahmed ...

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for two attacks in southern Syria. One of them was an attack on government ...

Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa has in six months established himself internationally and had crippling sanctions ...

Syria’s new government says it dismantled dozens of drug labs, many in areas once controlled by Assad’s brother, aiming to ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — When Syrian insurgents rode victorious into Damascus late last year, their rebel leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, was relying, in part, on thousands of foreign fighters to help ...

A German court on Tuesday convicted a Syrian man of crimes against humanity and jailed him for life over offences committed ...

Image In a Syrian prison, part of a portrait of Bashar al-Assad.Credit...William Keo for The New York Times That is all true. But the war in Syria did something more than that: It seemingly ...