(Bakr ALkasem/AFP/AFP) As city after city fell to a lightning rebel offensive in Syria last December, Iranian forces and diplomats supporting Bashar al-Assad saw the writing on the wall, abandoning ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Monday on his first visit to the Islamic republic since the start of the Syrian conflict. During talks, Assad ...

The fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in December 2024 dealt a major blow to Iran, depriving it of a key Mediterranean base and supply route to Hezbollah. Iran spent up to $50 billion ...

HOMS, Syria (AP) — A year ago, Mohammad Marwan found himself stumbling, barefoot and dazed, out of Syria’s notorious Saydnaya prison on the outskirts of Damascus as rebel forces pushing toward the ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - It wasn't exactly a break-up moment between Iran and ally Bashar Assad. But Tehran's whiplash diplomacy over the weekend suggested its embrace of the Syrian president ...

A compound in Lebanon housing people who fled Syria after Bashar Assad’s fall has faced allegations of harboring Assad loyalists, which residents deny ...

Iran was a staunch backer of Bashar al-Assad but quickly withdrew its forces once as rebel forces took over Syria — Bakr ALkasem As city after city fell to a lightning rebel offensive in Syria last ...