Amid the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War and talks with Israel, Hafez al-Assad's top priority was ...

But hours after rebels led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, swept into the Syrian capital Damascus in early December, ...

In-depth: After Assad's fall, Syrian civil society is reorganising for an inclusive political transition and to claim a role ...

Assad, meanwhile, had fled. HTS, the most organized of the groups, has since established itself as Syria’s de facto rulers after coordinating with the southern fighters during the lighting-fast ...

Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa said his government aims to restore ties with the United States in the coming days ...

The leader of the former rebel group that toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad has been named the country’s interim ...

Al-Shaar is the latest Assad-era to senior official to fall in the hands of the new interim government, who are seeking to ...

Without meaningful steps from Tel Aviv, normalisation is a non-starter - but after years of war, Damascus cannot afford a ...

Since the Islamist HTS militia seized power in Syria, reports of excessive violence and executions of members of religious ...

A study shows that only about 30% of those displaced by conflicts return home, even 10 years after the conflict ends.

Officers say the move aims to instil a sense of morality as they race to fill a security vacuum after dismantling ousted president Bashar al-Assad's notoriously corrupt and brutal security forces.

Former rebels now controlling Syria name an interim president and throw out the constitution adopted under Assad, saying a ...