Assad has fled to Russia and Syria's three biggest cities - Aleppo, Damascus and Homs - are now under the control of the ...

A rebel advance on Homs, 40 km (24 miles) south of Hama, could cut Damascus off from the coastal region, an area where Assad ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) After more than a decade of brutal civil war, it took Islamist militants just 11 days to sweep through Syria and topple the Regime of Bashar al-Assad. The offensive ...

Map: Where is Syria and how are its neighbours involved? Syria, with a population of about 22 million people, is located on the east coast of the Mediterranean sea. It borders Turkey to the north ...

The Russian military sites in Syria include a naval port on the Mediterranean Sea to berth submarines and an airfield to ...

Will Syria be different? If you have a mental map of the Middle East, rip it up. The overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria by a coalition of Islamist fighters changes everything.

While these events have been unfolding, the situation in a de facto self-governing region in the country’s north-east called the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (also known as Rojava ...

though some sort of rapprochement may be possible with Syria’s Kurdish and Druze minorities. “But I think they are hopeful of a Middle East where there will be less regimes hostile to Israel ...