Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez, ruled Syria for more than half a century but how did one family achieve and maintain ...

Two US Navy pilots were shot down Sunday over the Red Sea in an apparent “friendly fire” incident, the U.S military said.

With hostile Turkish-backed groups mobilizing against them in Syria’s north, and Damascus ruled by a group friendly to Ankara ...

While the Assads lived in luxury, most Qardaha residents — many, like Assad, members of the Alawite minority sect — survived ...

The fall of the Assad dynasty in Syria led to the desecration of Hafez Assad's mausoleum. Once restricted to locals, Qardaha now sees its residents struggling economically despite their previous ties ...

Geopolitical uncertainties increased in 2024 as tensions escalated in West Asia. Israel was involved in four conflicts in the ...

The buffer zone between Syria and the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights was created by the U.N. after the 1973 Mideast war. A ...

School lessons ended in Syria's biggest Palestinian refugee camp on October 18, 2012, judging by the date still chalked up on ...

Outdated and underfunded energy sector's problems further compounded by depleted gas reserves caused by attack on two major ...

As those in the lucrative Captagon network move aside, how will the new leaders stop any criminals waiting in the wings to ...

Assad, who wielded fear and force over Syria for more than two decades, fled the country under the cover of night — and a ...