(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 8 - Syrian rebels are looking for men from deposed dictator Bashar al-Assad's regime in foreign embassies in Damascus including the Italian one, the Farnesina (foreign ministry ...

Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad were allegedly communicating before rebels took over the Syrian government in December.

The foreign ministers will discuss a landmark national dialogue conference that Syria's new leaders say will set the priorities for the country. Initially planned for January, the ...

Bashar al-Assad's British wife is severely ill from leukaemia and has been given a '50/50' chance of survival by doctors, sources in contact with the family claim. Asma al-Assad reportedly fled to ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad denies his forces have ever used ... Syria is not a party to the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the ICC, meaning that it has not been possible to ...

MOSCOW -- Syria's former president Bashar al-Assad, who has been granted asylum ... is not a party to the International Criminal Court Rome Statute. Syrian militant groups waged a major offensive ...

NATO needs a stronger focus on the south and Africa, Italy's prime minister told a news conference on Thursday, saying Russia might boost its presence in eastern Libya after the collapse of its allied ...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken agreed Thursday in talks in Rome with European counterparts on the need to encourage ...

Foreign ministers from Italy, France, Germany, Britain and the United States will meet this week over the situation in Syria, Italy said Tuesday.

STORY: Foreign ministers and top diplomats from Western and Middle Eastern countries met with Syria's new foreign minister on ...