Ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad said Monday he wanted to stay in the country after rebels captured the capital, but Russia's military evacuated him from their base in western Syria after it came under attack.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken has wrapped up perhaps his last Middle East mission as America’s top diplomat.

The U.S. military has brought an American who was imprisoned in Syria for seven months out of the country.

An American who disappeared seven months ago into former Syrian President Bashar Assad’s notorious prison system says he was released by the “liberators” who arrived in Damascus a day after the longtime ruler fled the capital.