People holding a large Syrian opposition flag at Umayyad Square in Damascus, marking a new dawn after the fall of president Bashar al-Assad. AFP via Getty Images The Issue: A rebel group has forced ...

Bashar al-Assad’s critically ill wife will not be allowed to return to the UK for cancer treatment after her British passport expired, according to reports. The 49-year-old, born in London to Syrian ...

The fall of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, the culmination of years of civil war, has given way to a power vacuum with different factions protecting their own interests – and vying for power in the ...

According to Robert Wood, the US ambassador to the United Nations, Washington is keeping an eye on how opposition forces who deposed Bashar al-Assad would conduct on the ground after attempting to ...

Exiled Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was hospitalized recently after being poisoned while hiding out in Russia, according to a human rights watchdog. al-Assad, a longtime ally of Russian President ...

Assad’s regime, journalists in Syria were spied upon, put behind bars, abducted and even killed.  After the fall of the dictatorship on 8 December 2024, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) produced a ...

On November 29, Syrian rebels breached the western limits of Aleppo, Syria’s largest city in the north, which had suffered the greatest destruction of any city in the country’s 13-year-long civil war.

As Syria celebrates one year since the fall of the Assad regime, reports continue to provide details about the lives of the Assads. A new report at Al-Arabiya notes, “The ousted Syrian president, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Bashar al-Assad has left Syria behind, fleeing to Russia with his family and leaving his once-impenetrable Damascus ...

FACTBOX. On December 8, 2024, Syrian President Bashar Assad resigned and left the country. His last instruction was the handover of power should be peaceful, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. This ...

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