Syrian and Russian forces battled to bring Syria's second city of Aleppo under Assad's full control for years, unleashing widespread devastation.

Despite the rhetoric about a global war against Islamist terrorism, the US has long utilised reactionary Islamist groups in ...

Following the rebel forces' successful ousting of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, key figures within his regime, including ...

Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez, ruled Syria for more than half a century but how did one family achieve and maintain ...

Syrians who remained loyal to him through years of civil war fume that he left without a word. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Middle Eastern country had been ruled by outside powers and dictators for centuries before its revolution was realized.

Cyclist Bassel Soufi visits the summer resort of ousted Bashar al-Assad as he tours a part of his daily training in Burj ...

The downfall of the Assad regime has profound implications for the Middle East, particularly for Russia and Iran, whose ...

BRITS are feared to have been tortured in Assad’s sick prisons after a Tesco Clubcard and an Oyster travel card were found.

The ousted president was accompanied by only a handful of confidants, leaving both family members and loyal aides to find ...

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu's decades-long, self-proclaimed ambition is redrawing the Middle East map The collapse of ...

The veteran war photographer on his tough upbringing, the nightmares he suffers from his work and how he’s keen to return to ...