President Bashar Assad and his father, Hafez Assad, combined to rule Syria for more than 50 years, always with an iron fist ...
BEIRUT — The Syrian government fell early Sunday in a stunning end to the 50-year rule of the Assad family after a sudden rebel offensive sprinted across government-held territory and entered the ...
The defense forces of the Russia and Iran-backed Assad government have been struggling to stave off the lightning advance of ...
In the early hours of Sunday morning, opposition forces declared Syria liberated from the rule of President Bashar al-Assad as opposition forces surged into the capital. The former president in ...
Rebel fighters claimed they captured the Syrian capital of Damascus early Sunday as government forces loyal to the country's ...
Over the years, the widely held perception has been that Christians were relatively pro-Assad, not because they had any ...
Assad is reported to have flown out of the country to an unknown destination in the early hours of Sunday. The president’s ...
Rebel forces in Syria said they have captured four cities in the past 24 hours and were advancing on the capital Damascus.
When a patchwork of rebel armies threatened Syria’s capital a decade ago, governments from Washington to the Middle East were ...