Shortly before Sunni Islamist-led rebels swept into the Syrian capital, Iran-backed guards fled their positions at the gates ...

Syria’s new de facto authorities are led by a Sunni Islamist group with extremist origins, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), and ...

If you have a mental map of the Middle East, rip it up. The overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria by a coalition of ...

The Assad regime suddenly and dramatically fell Sunday after 13 years of brutal war. Here's a brief background.

The U.S. and its partners want to ensure the Islamic State can’t fill the leadership void following President Bashar Assad’s ...

By lowering the threshold for direct strikes, the tit for tat has boosted the odds that the two most powerful states in the ...

Pictures show rebel fighters standing next to the burning gravesite of Hafez al-Assad at his mausoleum in the family's ...

The US launched massive airstrikes on Islamic State targets in Syria, aiming to prevent the group from exploiting the leadership vacuum left by President Bashar Assad’s ousting. Striking 75 sites with ...

Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed over 44,000 Palestinians in Gaza, according to local health officials. They say ...

For more than half a century, the Assad dynasty appeared to have an impregnable hold over Syria. Relying on a formidable security apparatus, brutal use of force, and powerful allies such as Russia, ...

The rapid fall of Syria’s autocratic ruler, Bashar al-Assad, this past weekend was one of the most consequential developments ...

The tomb of ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s father Hafez was torched in his hometown of Qardaha, AFP footage taken Wednesday showed, with rebel fighters in fatigues and young men watching it ...