When Hafez al-Assad, an Alawite minority member, seized control of the Ba'ath Party in Syria in 1970, he faced a significant ...

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 ...

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

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.

Syrians now face a hopeful if uncertain future, after rebels seized the capital Damascus and President Bashar al-Assad fled ...

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 ...

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

Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.) said on Sunday that the collapse of the Syrian government is a “potential win” for the U.S.

AMMAN, Nov 30 (Reuters) - The Syrian army said on Saturday ... although most major fighting halted years ago after Iran and Russia helped Assad's government win control of most land and all ...