The ascendance of Sunni Islamist rebels in Syria should be viewed with great caution by Western powers, but the Assad ...

By Farnaz Fassihi and Ronen Bergman Iran began to evacuate its military commanders and personnel from Syria on Friday ... Tunisia and Yemen, each of which brought civil war or authoritarian ...

The Israeli military said sirens were not sounded to warn of the incoming drone and there were no immediate reports of ...

In a region “already on fire,” analysts say, rebels’ advance toward Damascus is a barometer of the shifting power dynamics ...

Bashar Assad instead became a doctor in the 1980s and was studying in London to be an ophthalmologist in the early 1990s. But ...

Assad's fall from power has ended the Baath Party's and Assad dynasty's long rule over Syria. The Baath Party is secular, but ...

Russia already had a decades-long relationship with the Assad government, and had military bases there before the civil war.

A new revision of the strategic map in the Middle East is on the cards with the downfall of Syria's Bashar Assad in a ...

The Sykes-Picot Agreement, which divided the Middle East between the British and French, has led to an uneasy rumbling in the ...

The power vacuum left by the collapse of the brutal Assad dictatorship could now be exploited by local warlords and ambitious neighbouring states. Western governments must urgently gain agreement from ...

The fall of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad shattered the key link in Iran's "axis of resistance," but Tehran will look for ...

The Lebanon-based Hezbollah movement, backed by Iran, has fought alongside the Syrian regime army but has been severely weakened by its conflict with Israel. Israel, concerned by what it calls ...