Assad’s most-notorious death factory, the hangings had become routine. Once a month, around midnight, the guards at Sednaya ...

A German court has handed down a life sentence to a Syrian doctor convicted of committing acts of torture as part of Bashar al-Assad’s brutal crackdown on dissent.

A German court on Tuesday convicted a Syrian man of crimes against humanity and jailed him for life over offences committed during his time fighting for former President Bashar al-Assad. The man ...

In the wake of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime collapse, Germany has been gripped by heated political debates over whether Syrian refugees should be encouraged to return voluntarily or face ...

A man burns a picture of Bashar al-Assad close to Syria's border with Lebanon. Rebels launched a shock offensive across Syria in late November, ousting al-Assad and ending more than half a century ...

An alleged former Syrian prison guard has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of committing crimes against humanity under former president Bashar al-Assad, prosecutors said Tuesday.The man, ...

When Bashar al-Assad’s hold on Syria was loosened after 53 years of brutal autocratic rule by him—and, before that, his father Hafez al-Assad—no one anticipated how quickly the regime would ...

Germany is to start deporting Syrians with criminal records, the interior ministry said Saturday, days after Austria became ...

More than half a million newly naturalized citizens will be able to vote in Germany’s national election for the first time this weekend ...

(CNN) — Syria’s iron-fisted leader Bashar al-Assad is the second generation of an autocratic family dynasty that held power for more than five decades and his disappearance amid a lightning ...

Thanks to former chancellor Angela Merkel's asylum policy, Germany has taken in nearly half the Syrians seeking refuge in ...

A German court on Tuesday convicted a Syrian man of crimes against humanity and jailed him for life over offences committed during his time fighting for former President Bashar al-Assad.