After the 1973 war, former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad realized that reclaiming the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights ...

Journalists sometimes hear shocking statements—ones they lock away in their memory, fearing their repercussions. Some are too ...

Syria’s new leadership faces allegations of mass killings, as Alawite communities endure field executions and mass ...

Sharaa, whose fighters led the offensive that toppled the Assad family dynasty in December, has said he will build an ...

Assad’s regime in Syria in December 2024 felt almost unreal. “I thought the ending of my story was dying in exile,” she told ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s top diplomat, defense minister and intelligence chief paid a sudden visit to Damascus on Thursday, ...

Just hours after Islamist rebels ousted longtime Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in December, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood at edge of the occupied Golan Heights and looked out over ...

For Waad Al-Kateab, the fall of Bashar Al-Assad's regime in Syria in December 2024 felt almost unreal. "I thought the ending ...

Israel has never fully demarcated its borders with its neighbors. For half a century, Hafez al-Assad and his son, Bashar, ruled Syria ruthlessly, enduring wars, rebellions, and uprisings while ...

The late Hafez al-Assad, Bashar's father, became the most powerful Alawite when he seized control of the country in a 1970 coup after rising within the ostensibly secular Baath Party.