The UN Security Council will visit Syria and Lebanon next week as part of its diplomatic engagement ahead of Slovenia assuming the council’s presidency in December. The visit aims to assess regional ...

The U.N. Security Council will visit Syria and Lebanon next week, the Slovenian mission said Tuesday, as it looks to chair the council starting in December. The ambassadors for 15 member states are ...

1994 - Syrian President Hafez Assad’s oldest son and heir apparent, Basel, dies in a car accident. Second son Bashar, is called back from medical training in Britain and is groomed to take over his ...

Members of the security forces belonging to Syria's new authorities and supporters of former dictator Bashar al-Assad ...

Syrian authorities have issued an arrest warrant for the ousted president, Bashar al-Assad, a judge announced on Saturday. In a statement to the state-run news agency SANA (affiliated with Syria’s ...

The U.N. organization assisting in investigating the most serious crimes in Syria said Monday the country’s new authorities were “very receptive” to its request for cooperation during a just-concluded ...

Six months ago, the once seemingly impossible became reality: Syria's long-time ruler Bashar al-Assad was overthrown after years of brutal civil war. More than five decades of authoritarian rule by ...

The United Nations body tasked with probing serious crimes in Syria announced Monday that Syrian authorities were "very receptive" to its cooperation requests during a recent visit. Preparations are ...

Members of the UN Security Council are to travel to Syria and Lebanon next week in a rare trip they hope will rebuild confidence in the world body, and support stability in the fragile ceasefire along ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. organization assisting in investigating the most serious crimes in Syria said Monday the country’s new authorities were “very receptive” to its request for cooperation ...