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

Although pleased with the rebel takeover in Syria, Ankara wants to avoid the instability that gripped Iraq after the 2003 ...

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 ...

While Syrians in San Diego are celebrating the fall of the Assad regime, some say they are still waiting to go back to the ...

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

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

President Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia on December 8, leaving behind many of his collaborators, some of whom sought refuge in neighbouring countries. According to two sources, the ousted president, ...

Sharaa, the militant leader of the main group driving the Syrian armed opposition, met with the leaders of the armed groups and discussed with them the new format of the Syrian army ...

Syria's new interim government has appointed Murhaf Abu Qasra as defence minister. Abu Qasra, a key figure in the insurgency, is associated with the Islamist HTS group. The government's three-month ...