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 ...

As rebels make progress in their fight against Assad's government, Newsweek has mapped the regional approach to the conflict.

Not to be outdone, also today, Islamist rebels “ made a statement from a mosque in Damascus, in footage aired by Channel 12 ...

The ascendance of Sunni Islamist rebels in Syria should be viewed with great caution by Western powers, but the Assad ...

The Israeli military said sirens were not sounded to warn of the incoming drone and there were no immediate reports of ...

The “axis of resistance” that Iran has formed with its militant allies in Lebanon, the Palestinian territories, Syria, Iraq and Yemen would be weakened. Israel and its Arab allies would be ...

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

Assad's fall from power has ended the Baath Party's and Assad dynasty's long rule over Syria. The Baath Party is secular, but ...

It was a secretive, two-pronged approach meant to pressure President Bashar al-Assad of Syria to abandon his most important regional alliance with Hezbollah and Iran. The overtures to Mr. al-Assad ...

A new revision of the strategic map in the Middle East is on the cards with the downfall of Syria's Bashar Assad in a ...

The overthrow followed a 13-year civil war, which started after Assad crushed pro-democracy protests, killing more than half ...

Syria is finally free of Mr Assad’s brutality. A rebel offensive that began in the north-west on November 27th progressed ...