Syria announces seizure of 12 million captagon pills in raid near Damascus

The seizure marks one of the largest drug busts since the transitional authority assumed power in late 2024. Captagon became ...

Syria arrests Assad relative tied to $2 billion Captagon empire

Authorities say Namir Badi’ Assad was seized in Al-Qardaha with alleged partners as part of a wider post-regime crackdown on ...

Syria's Sharaa meets Putin in Moscow for first time since fall of Assad

Russia wants continued access to its Tartous naval port and Hmeimim military airbase on Syria's Mediterranean coast. Sharaa ...

Operation Move Earth: How Ousted Syrian Leader Assad Moved Mass Grave To Secret Location

The Assad government carried out a two-year clandestine operation to truck thousands of bodies from one of Syria's largest ...

Trafficked, detained or dead? BBC follows Syrian refugee in search of missing children

A BBC documentary team follows a Syrian refugee's journey back to his homeland in search of his missing children and ...

Months after fall of Assad, families of Syria's missing still seeking justice

Some are only now coming forward with accounts of loved ones who disappeared during the civil war and are presumed dead.

Assad-era conspiracy to hide thousands of dead turned Syria’s remote desert into a mass grave

For two years, Syria’s Assad government secretly trucked thousands of bodies from an exposed mass grave to the desert, trying ...

The Vanishing Act: How Assad’s Top Henchmen Fled Syria, and Justice

As Syria’s regime collapsed, the world’s eyes were on Bashar al-Assad’s getaway flight. Behind him, officials key to his ...

Syria’s interim president visits Putin in Moscow for first meeting since fall of Assad regime

Sharaa, travelled to Moscow for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, in the first face-to-face ...

Syrian president to use Putin talks to request extradition of deposed president Assad, sources say

The Assads now live discreetly in Moscow, according to Russian media. Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa will use talks with ...

Former Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad nearly dies from suspected poisoning while hiding out in Russia

Exiled Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was hospitalized recently after being poisoned while hiding out in Russia, according to a human rights watchdog. al-Assad, a longtime ally of Russian President ...