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 ...

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 ...

A new global risk map has revealed the world's most dangerous, war-torn cities where travelers will be in jeopardy should ...

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

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.

Russia and Iran.Both countries were huge backers of the Assad regime for decades, seeing Syria as the centerpiece of their Middle East policies. That’s why Tehran and Moscow intervened so heavily to ...

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

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

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

It took 51 truckloads to haul away the massive stash of processed marijuana - some 90,000 pounds packed into more than 3,000 ...