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 ...

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

Slender shoulders, a limp handshake and soft-spoken lisp. Those were the most vivid memories from my meeting with Bashar al ...

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

As more than five decades of Assad family rule come to an end, Syrians are cautiously paving a way forward. As the year draws ...

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

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 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 ...

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

According to Israel’s N12 television channel, 350 Israeli fighter jets have hit 320 strategic facilities of the Assad army over the day ...

Islamic State militants seized large parts of Iraq and Syria in 2014, declaring a caliphate. The U.S. gathered a coalition of ...