Images of abandoned military vehicles, weapons and equipment near the border with Lebanon suggest many Iranian soldiers were forced to quickly flee as the rebels took Syria in just 11 days.
The withdrawal marks the demise of a yearslong effort in which Tehran used Syria as a hub in its regional strategy to spread ...
Iran poured billions of dollars and sent thousands of soldiers and militia fighters to support the regime of Bashar al-Assad ...
The call, combined with various promises of economic and constitutional support to the Islamist regime led by Hayat Tahrir al ...
The risk of Syria becoming the stage for a direct conflict between Turkey and Israel must be seriously addressed, an Israeli ...
A week of punishing Israeli airstrikes on Syria after the fall ... Iranian defenses in the region, leaving Tehran more exposed than it has been in decades. Iran’s growing vulnerability has ...
The stunning collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria has sent shock waves ... Assad’s rule, long sustained by Russia and Iran, has come to an end, leaving his former patrons scrambling ...
After Washington sagely avoided deep entanglement in the country for decades, U.S. policy after 2011 – when the uprising to remove Assad started – has strengthened jihadists, impoverished ordinary ...
Rebel forces in Syria said they have captured four cities in the past 24 hours and entered the capital Damascus.
Russia, a longstanding ally of Assad, granted the ousted Syrian leader asylum last weekend after helping him to flee his country as the rebels approached Damascus. Iran’s foreign minister warned ...
A week of punishing Israeli airstrikes on Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad ... but also peeled away another layer of Iranian defenses in the region, leaving Tehran more exposed than it has been ...