A Syrian man who murdered his 18-year-old daughter in a so-called “honour killing” before fleeing the county has been given a ...

In the complex mosaic of the new Syria, the old battle against the group calling itself Islamic State (IS) continues in the Kurdish-controlled north-east. It's a conflict that has slipped from the ...

US-led coalition air strikes killed nearly 60 people at a Syrian prison run by the Islamic State group, a monitor said Tuesday, as critics hit out at Washington for threatening action against Damascus ...

Seven members of Islamic State escaped from a small prison in northeastern Syria on Sunday, but four were recaptured and a search continued for the remaining three, said Syrian state media and an ...

Syrian authorities announced arrests have been made in connection to a deadly suicide bombing that claimed the lives of at least 25 people at a Greek Orthodox church on Sunday. The interior ministry ...

Syria arrested five people suspected of having links to the shooting of five Iowa National Guard members and Syrian troops in Palmyra on Saturday, Dec. 13, the country's Interior Ministry said. Sgt.

France's national finance prosecutor called Monday for a four-year prison sentence and a 10 million euro fine for Rifaat al-Assad, uncle of the Syrian president, accused of money laundering related to ...

The government faces a dilemma over what to do with civil-war-era prisons and detention camps that hold thousands of ISIS fighters and tens of thousands of their family members. By Alissa J. Rubin ...

An American college student who was arrested on a Syrian street then spent two weeks in jail after he pulled out his smart phone near a demonstration told the Associated Press on Tuesday that he was ...

Prosecutors say a Syrian security official accused of torture hid in plain sight in Europe for years, protected by Israeli and Austrian intelligence agents. By Carlotta Gall and Saad Alnassife Our ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian traders who price goods in foreign currency will face up to 10 years in jail, the government announced on Sunday in a move aimed at stemming the increasing dollarisation of ...

LONDON, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Human Rights Watch has called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to release one of his most outspoken critics, prominent lawyer Haitham al-Maleh who turned 80 in jail on ...