Then-president Bashar al-Assad, center, waves to his supporters at a polling station during presidential elections in the town of Douma, near the Syrian capital of Damascus, May 26, 2021.

The comments offer new insight into Israel's thinking in the last days of the former Syrian regime and cast doubt on the narrative that Iran had chosen to abandon Mr Al Assad, a long-time ally who ...

Bashar Al Assad lost that support by failing to meet the needs of his soldiers and their leaders,” says Peter Mansoor, a historian at Ohio State University who has written two histories of the ...

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports one dead and two others wounded in the Israeli attack on a vehicle.

Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the fall of Bashar al-Assad this month, and claimed that his decision to fight to the end against Hamas and Hezbollah had contributed to “changing the face of the ...

Missing American: A top Syrian general under President Bashar al-Assad told U.S. investigators that Austin Tice, an American journalist who went missing in 2012, was dead and provided the possible ...

Since Bashar al-Assad's 24-year rule came to an end on Sunday, Israel, which borders Syria, has conducted hundreds of strikes in key Syrian cities, targeting key military and strategic installations.

Israel said Monday it is "interested" in striking peace agreements with neighbouring Lebanon and Syria, a potentially ...

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Normalization between al Sharaa's Syria, Israel possible after decades of hostilities - opinion ... and overthrew the regime of Bashar al-Assad in a matter of days.

US President Donald Trump officialised a pivot in US-Syria relations on Monday by lifting most sanctions on a "transformed" ...

The overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad may have marked a major blow to the Iran-aligned Axis of Resistance coalition, but a new group styling itself in a similar manner has emerged to ...