The United States, Russia, Türkiye and Iran are among the key global players with a foothold in Syria. This is what they potentially stand to gain, or lose, from Assad's downfall.

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 ...

BEIRUT: Syrian government forces have lost control of Daraa city, a war monitor said, in another stunning blow for President ...

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Dozens of Syrian government troops have been filmed surrendering to rebels after they were abandoned by their comrades at a ...

As rebels make progress in their fight against Assad's government, Newsweek has mapped the regional approach to the conflict.