But for years now he has led a group of rebels in southern Syria that shared HTS’s opposition to Mr Assad, though not the group’s Islamism. The commander has spent much of his life fighting the ...

The rebels who seized control called for foreign help in prosecuting atrocities, while trying to restore order in a fractured country.

Rebel forces in Syria captured the capital Damascus and toppled the regime of President Bashar Assad in a lightning-quick ...

Zor's airport and barracks after toppling the Bashar Al-Assad regime. Militants atop armoured cars are seen rolling in to the ...

Many Syrians remain apprehensive about how religious minorities, including Christians, will be treated in a new political ...

The rapid fall of Syria’s autocratic ruler, Bashar al-Assad, this past weekend was one of the most consequential developments ...

Syria's new prime minister said the Islamist-led alliance that ousted president Bashar al-Assad will guarantee minority ...

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

After the routing by Israel of Hamas and Hizbullah, its two main proxies in the region, the fall of Mr Assad, its third, is a ...

Assad's father - Rebels were pictured chanting as they set alight the tomb of infamous former dictator Hafez Assad ...

The surrender of the Mazzeh air base outside Syrian capital Damascus by Bashar al-Assad's forces triggered a round of Israeli ...

Kobane, Syria, was home to one of the most famous military turning points in history. A small force of Kurdish guerrillas, ...