The Syrian regime’s collapse came more quickly than the rebels had dreamed — the circumstances were both serendipitous and ...

Syrians who remained loyal to him through years of civil war fume that he left without a word. Read more at straitstimes.com.

In the villages above the Syrian port city of Tartus they once hailed the sons who died fighting in Bashar al-Assad's service ...

We were not prepared for what we were going to see,” says Human Rights Watch researcher Hiba Zayadin, who recently visited one mass execution site turned mass grave in Syria, following the sudden fall ...

"But the important thing is that Bashar al-Assad ... military service was prolonged and he was pressed into combat against the now victorious rebels. But she does not display a photo of him in his ...

It took Assad’s regime to fall and Putin to accept it meekly for the West to appreciate that things weren’t all that rosy in ...

Former Syrian regime security forces have been handing in their weapons to the rebel-linked transitional government in the ...

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

But there are no plans to deploy the U.S. military to help with the task, according to the official. Assad's regime repeatedly used chemical weapons against the rebels and his people during the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday he had not spoken to US President-elect Donald Trump in over four years, but ...

The Israeli army said an attempt to intercept a projectile launched from Yemen overnight, some 2,000 kilometres away, was ...