This month, thousands of Syrians poured into the streets in the broadest protests since al-Assad’s fall. Unlike under his family’s 54-year police state, they were allowed to go home.

A Melbourne imam whose Islamic community centre has been linked by prosecutors in the United Arab Emirates to the co-pilot who allegedly attacked the captain of a flydubai jet has said he "never met" ...

The judge who sentenced Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia last week was himself sentenced to death in absentia by the same regime years earlier. Judge Fakhr al-Din al-Aryan ...

Reporter's top journalism award comes amid row over her reportage that misidentified an accused torturer, sparking fierce ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clipped From Video An explosion went off near the Four Seasons Hotel in Damascus on Tuesday, where French President Emmanuel ...