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Bashar Assad instead became a doctor in the 1980s and was studying in London to be an ophthalmologist in the early 1990s. But ...

Russia already had a decades-long relationship with the Assad government, and had military bases there before the civil war.

Security sources have stated that Israeli forces in Syria have reached the southern city of Qatana, around 16 miles from ...

A new revision of the strategic map in the Middle East is on the cards with the downfall of Syria's Bashar Assad in a ...

The fall of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad shattered the key link in Iran's "axis of resistance", but Tehran will look for ways to adapt to the new reality, analysts say.

They rapidly advanced east towards Aleppo, Syria’s second city, and south towards Damascus, the capital. In both directions, ...

Assad, who has not spoken in public since the lightning rebel advance, has fled Damascus, reportedly to Moscow ...

Two senior members of Taiwan's government are in the United States to meet people connected to President-elect Donald Trump's ...