and overthrew the regime of Bashar al-Assad in a matter of days. Known then as Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, and invariably pictured in uniform, he has since cast aside both his military persona and his ...

ODNI also notes that the fall of President Bashar al-Asad’s regime in Syria, replaced by opposition forces led by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), has created conditions for extended instability and could ...

In addition, the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s dictator ... A third of them have spent more than 150 days in uniform. Burnout is setting in: some units are finding that only 60-70% ...

At the end of January, Ahmed al-Sharaa stepped up to a podium in the presidential palace in Damascus, dressed in the olive-drab uniform of a ... year dynastic rule of Bashar al-Assad and his ...

A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved in suppressing the protests that started the 2011 uprising has been detained inside Syria, according to state news agency SANA.

(AP Photo/Mosa’ab Elshamy, File) DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The Syrian factions that toppled President Bashar ... meeting that al-Sharaa came across as “pragmatic.” Speaking at Wednesday’s meeting, ...

Democratic senators on the Intelligence Committee are expected to home in on Gabbard's 2017 visit to Syria to meet then-President Bashar al-Assad and ... served 21 years in uniform, who's passed ...

This potential agreement now appears to be off the table after Fico’s visit to Moscow. Restoring Diplomatic Relations with Syria After Bashar al-Asad’s regime in Syria fell and Russian forces left the ...

On Jan. 1, 2025, several media outlets including Newsweek and The Sun reported on a supposed poison attack on the exiled former president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, who resides in Russia ...