The Telegram account General SVR is popular with British tabloids but has a less-than-perfect track record for truth.

In the days since former President Bashar al-Assad's fall, Syrians have begun the anguished search for family members who vanished under the dictator's regime. Mohammed Saeed Zidane and his wife ...

Every day, since the fall of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, a crowd of mothers ... Out of the crowd a man with a mustache, a red baseball cap and a wide smile walks up to us.

Bashar al-Assad, for all his autocratic power, cultivated a relatively modest public image. He flaunted nothing like the mega-yachts and network of marble baroque and rococo palaces of Iraq’s ...