But Hezbollah had to direct its troops back to Lebanon to fight Israel, leaving Assad’s forces in a weakened position. HTS leader al-Golani lamented in a speech on Sunday that Syria had become ...

Thousands of Syrian refugees are going back to their homeland but conditions there remain extremely challenging ...

Bashar al-Assad is the second son of Hafez al-Assad, a military officer who led a coup in 1970 and ruled Syria for nearly 30 ...

The sudden collapse of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime marks a seismic shift in Middle Eastern geopolitics. After nearly 13 years of brutal civil war, armed rebels have taken control of ...

For years, President Bashar al-Assad of Syria was able to beat back opposition fighters with the help of Russia, Iran and Hezbollah. Now, with those allies weakened or distracted by their own ...

The collapse of the Assad regime was expected to increase instability, but so far Ahmed Al-Sharaa has attempted to make ...

Hezbollah and Iran intervened in Syria’s 13-year civil war to bolster Mr. al-Assad’s troops, but, sapped by the last year of conflict with Israel, were unable or unwilling to come to his ...

Syria’s iron-fisted leader Bashar al-Assad is the second generation of an autocratic family dynasty that held power for more than five decades and his disappearance amid a lighting rebel advance ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad boarded a plane and left Damascus for an unknown destination on Sunday, two senior army officers told Reuters, as rebels said they had entered the capital with no ...

Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his family have been granted asylum in Russia and are now in Moscow. Assad's departure marks the end of nearly 25 years of brutal rule.