For years, Bashar al-Assad and his family carefully cultivated an image of the Syrian leader as a modest, austere figure. Assad's regime co...

Syrian rebels took Damascus. President Assad's rule ended. People celebrated in the streets. The central bank was looted. Assad's palace wa...

Bashar al-Assad’s 24-year rule ended as Syrian rebels captured Damascus, marking a seismic moment in the country’s 13-year civil war. As sp...

The Syrian rebel coalition announced on Sunday that it is working to transition power to a new governing body with full executive authority...

Syrian rebels, led by opposition forces including Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), have made rapid advances into the city of Homs and its suburb...

Syrian rebel commander Hassan Abdel Ghani reassured minorities after Islamist-led fighters seized key cities from government forces. The re...

Syrian government forces have lost control of Daraa city, marking a significant blow to President Bashar al-Assad’s rule. Daraa, known as t...

Abu Mohammed al-Golani, former al Qaeda commander, has transformed from a shadowy figure to the most recognizable insurgent leader in Syria...

His American publisher, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, confirmed the death. Friends said the cause was cardiac arrest.

Iran and Saudi Arabia are on track to normalise relations now, after being bitter Middle East rivals for the past seven years. In 1979, the...

On January 14, 2011, social networks were flooded with footage of lawyer Abdennaceur Aouini defying a curfew to stand in the iconic Avenue ...

The US and its coalition partners are "increasing the pace" of actions against the Islamic State, Secretary of State John Kerry has said.

As a journalist, it would have been the obvious thing to write about. It would no doubt have been riveting and aroused immense interest due...

An explosion in a mosque in northern Syria killed 25 members of Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, including one of its leaders, as they attended...

While its merciless battlefield tactics and its imposition of its austere vision of Islamic law have won the group headlines.

After Libya, the Americans and the West are eyeing offshore and onshore oil fields in Syria.

Iran and Syria have been strong allies since the 1979 revolution and there is no doubt that Iran is Syria’s strongest political, economic a...