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Austin Tice, a former U.S. Marine turned journalist, vanished in 2012 while covering Syria’s civil war.

Appointment of former leader of group that led operation to topple Assad comes amid other political changes.

Authorities have arrested dozens of people accused of taking advantage of the chaos in Syria to settle old scores.

Aleksandr Lukashenko has supported and continues to support Bashar al-Assad, the former president of Syria.

Elite Air Force unit breached underground facility 200 kilometers from Israel, laid explosives and escaped unscathed after 2.5 hours, in one of the most complex operations to date.

Long-serving dictator Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea receives “Lifetime Non-Achievement Award”

The new Syrian authorities have arrested military judge Mohammed Kanjo Hassan, who issued death sentences to prisoners of the Sednaya prison complex.

Recently deposed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was popular among the Western ultra-right for his anti-Semitic views, Holocaust denial, and ruthless persecution of his country’s Muslim population.

In May, Syria’s presidency announced that the then-first lady of the Middle Eastern country had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia - an aggressive cancer of the bone marrow and the blood.

Ministers have been urged not to let the British wife of deposed Syrian despot Bashar Al-Assad come back to the UK amid reports she has become unhappy with life in Russia.

More than 25,000 Syrians have returned home from Turkey since Bashar al-Assad was overthrown by Islamist-led HTS rebels, Turkey’s interior minister said Tuesday.

The UK-born wife of Syria’s ousted leader is a controversial figure globally and, like her husband, is subject to sanctions.

On Dec. 9, Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that Syria has entered a “bright period” in its history.

The comments are the first by the ousted leader since he was overthrown by insurgent groups.

Foreign secretary says Britain is also working diplomatically to secure better governance in Syria after ousting of Assad

Victims of Bashar al-Assad’s regime were silenced for years - but after the Syrian president was toppled by rebel forces, they can now speak out about the torture they faced

Abu Hassan al-Hamwi’s HTS group coordinated rebels to create a unified war effort that included a specialist drone unit

Events in Syria have moved at lightning pace over the last two weeks.

US voices concern over continuing offensive by Turkish-backed rebel groups against Kurdish groups guarding prisons and camps

Syrian rebels seized control of Damascus in an offensive that toppled the iron-fisted ‘tyrant’ President Bashar al-Assad and took the world by surprise.

Any prospect of British jihadists returning from Syria would be "a concern" and the UK is keeping "a very close eye" on the situation, a Home Office minister has said.

Asma Al Assad was once seen as the face of female liberation in the Middle East; with her successful career in banking and her secular British upbringing.