Syria's Baath party, under the Assad dynasty, ruled with an iron fist for over five decades. Hafez al-Assad seized power in a 1970 coup, es...

Syrians celebrated the apparent fall of the Assad regime by toppling statues of Hafez al-Assad, the former president and father of Bashar a...

Syria War: After over five decades of rule, the Assad family's reign in Syria has ended with the fall of Damascus and President Bashar al-A...

Syrian rebels seized Hama, a city etched in memory by the 1982 massacre. The insurgents removed a poster of President Bashar Assad. Hama's ...

China and Syria have announced plans to upgrade their relationship to a strategic partnership. This comes after a meeting between Chinese P...

Syrian President Bashar Assad has arrived in China for his first visit since the start of the country's conflict. China has been a major su...

The United States has about 1,000 troops deployed in Syria as part of international efforts to combat jihadists, and periodically carries o...

Nine people were shot dead by motorcycle attackers during protests in Iran. Those killed included a woman and 2 children.

The US military officially confirmed a raid near the frontlines in north-east Syria targeting a senior ISIS official.

Hafez al-Assad, Syria's defence minister and the father of Bashar al-Assad, takes power in a military coup on November 16, 1970 that ousts ...

The incident came after days of protests in Turkey over Russia's role in Syria, though Moscow and Ankara are now working closely together t...

Activists of Shiv Sena Hindustan today burnt the effigy of Bollywood star Aamir Khan at a sugarmill crossing here to protest his remarks on...

Left parties today demanded that the Centre stand up against the war effort against Syria at all levels.

Left parties in Tamil Nadu today announced state-wide protests to condemn the US for its proposed military intervention in Syria.

The US, leading the western world with its long-standing antipathy towards the Syrian regime, has gone further and imposed new sanctions.

President faces the deepest crisis of 11 years in power, with one city in the grip of anti-govt protesters and unrest spreading to other pa...

Syrians are organizing campaigns on Facebook and Twitter that call for a ``day of rage'' in Damascus this week, taking inspiration from Egy...