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 ...

Rebel forces in Syria captured the capital Damascus and toppled the regime of President Bashar Assad in a lightning-quick ...

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

The flag of the Syrian Arab Republic led by Bashar al-Assad of the Ba'ath Party is split into three horizontal bands — known ...

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

The fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria has struck a serious blow to Iran’s Axis of Resistance. But weak governments in Lebanon ...

The fall of the Assad regime erases a decades-long ally of both Moscow and Tehran -- but one of those two countries has lost way more than the other.

The jihadi rebels who toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad say they want to build a unified, inclusive country ...

Donald Trump doesn’t think much of Joe Biden’s foreign policy record. The Republican president-elect frequently casts the ...

There are Turkish-backed rebels and Sunni Muslim jihadists in the north, Kurds ruling over much of Syria’s east, and ...

The rebel groups and foreign powers contending to shape the country’s future.

Russia first fired the Oreshnik missile at the Ukrainian city of Dnipro on 21 November, in what President Vladimir Putin cast as a response to Ukraine’s first use of US ATACMs ballistic missiles and ...