The stunning collapse of the brutal Assad regime in Syria, a family business since the 1970s, is a geopolitical earthquake ...

Well, irony of ironies, the Assad family in Syria took power in 1971, in part because of Syria’s devastating defeat in the 1967 war. What goes around comes around. Hold on to your hats, though; you ...

Jolani, the leader of Syria's Islamist rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), delivered a powerful victory speech in ...

The web of anti-Western alliances Syria has spun since Mr Assad’s father, Hafez, became president in 1971 is unravelling. Its ...

Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.) said on Sunday that the collapse of the Syrian government is a “potential win” for the U.S. but noted the dynamic is more complicated since the rebel ...

The belligerents are the last survivors of Syria’s hugely destructive civil war, which began in 2011 as another Arab Spring revolution, with antigovernment protesters demanding Assad leave.

An Israeli strike targeted an air defence installation near Syria's Mediterranean Latakia port, Syrian security sources said ...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned on Monday that Islamic State will try to use this period to re-establish ...

Even the normally brash Donald Trump seems disconcerted by the volatile international situation he’ll inherit as the new ...

Foreign Office minister Hamish Falconer urged ‘all actors involved’ not to target civilians following recent airstrikes in ...

Assad was never meant to be Syria's leader. He was an ophthalmologist practising in London when his brother and father's heir-apparent died. How did his regime survive for 24 years? What were his ties ...