In a speech from the White House on Sunday afternoon ... giving instructions to transfer power peacefully." Assad agreed to give up power as the result of negotiations between him and the rebels ...

He had spent the day with the leaders of Syria’s myriad armed factions, trying to persuade them to disband. Over seven weeks ...

and the help that some others are giving to them, they thought that the resistance was over," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a televised speech. "They are completely wrong." On December 8 ...

Calls for Syria’s new authorities to guarantee equality and safety for Syria’s ethnic and religious minorities have been loud ...