Syria

Syrian insurgents reached Damascus as part of a rapidly moving offensive that saw them take over some of Syria's largest cities.

The head of a Syrian opposition war monitor said President Bashar Assad had left the country for an undisclosed location, fleeing ahead of insurgents who said ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has reportedly left Syria after rebel forces completed a stunning advance on the capital.

Syria's armed opposition groups say they have captured the capital and President Bashar al-Assad has fled the country.

The fall of the city to rebel forces would be another major blow to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as it would isolate Damascus, cutting the city off from the ...

Opposition forces declare Syria free of Assad rule as the president reportedly flees the country.

Syrian dictator said jetted off to unknown locale, as thousands celebrate in streets * In 1st since 1974, IDF sets up positions in buffer zone with Syria to ...

The fall of Bashar al-Assad was unthinkable just a week ago, when rebels started their astonishing campaign from their base in Idlib, in Syria's north-west.

The Syrian government collapsed early Sunday, falling to a lightning rebel offensive that seized control of the capital of Damascus and sent crowds into the ...

Initially seen as a potential reformer, Bashar al-Assad ruled Syria by imposing a brutal regime that imprisoned tens of thousands of dissidents and killed ...

Opposition forces have taken control of the capital after a significant offensive. Here is how it unravelled.

After more than a year of relentless conflict in the Middle East, the stunning capitulation of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime will go down in the ...

The defense forces of the Russia and Iran-backed Assad government have been struggling to stave off the lightning advance of rebel forces.

Syrian opposition fighters have declared that the country has been “liberated” after they stormed the capital and announced that President Bashar al-Assad ...

The long rule of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is over, after rebels swept into the capital Damascus. The fighters declared the city “liberated” in a ...

After more than 13 years of war, hundreds of thousands of people killed and millions displaced, the 24-year rule of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is over ...

An Israeli soldier walks past tanks deployed near the Israel-Syria border in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on December 8, 2024. Jalaa Marey/AFP/Getty ...

On this historic day for Syria and the Syrian people, France welcomes the fall of Bachar al-Assad and his regime on 8 December 2024, after more (…)

EPA Crowds of people waving flags in Damascus after the fall of the Assad regime in EPA. "They arrived here worried about the Islamists," is how one source ...

Israeli forces also bomb weapons depots in southern Syria and the capital Damascus, Israeli media reports.

Israel takes up posts in area for the first time since 1974; IDF said to strike chemical weapons sites in Damascus and Hezbollah convoy fleeing to Lebanon.

A war monitor said late Saturday that Islamist-led rebels had entered the strategic city of Homs.

The rebels are led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, along with an umbrella group of Turkish-backed Syrian militias called the Syrian National Army.

BEIRUT (AP) — Abu Mohammed al-Golani, the rebel leader whose stunning insurgency toppled Syria's President Bashar Assad, has spent years working to remake ...

Abu Mohammad al-Jolani spearheaded a lightning assault that led to the fall of President Bashar al-Assad.

On January 21, 1994, Basil al-Assad was killed in what the Syrian government described as a car accident. According to official dispatches, he had been driving ...

President Bashar Assad and other officials left Syria, their whereabouts unknown, after negotiations with rebel groups, Russia's Foreign Ministry claimed ...

The rebel coalition that has stormed into the Syrian capital, forcing the departure of Assad after 13 years of horrendously costly civil war, had prepared ...

President Bashar al-Assad's regime has fallen in Syria, almost 14 years after an uprising against it began and more than half a century after his father ...

As opposition fighters take control of Syria's capital, the whereabouts of deposed ruler Bashar al-Assad are unknown.

Hagar Chemali, former National Security Council director for Lebanon and Syria, says she is shocked at how easily Syrian rebels have been able to advance ...

The red, white, green and black Free Syrian Army flag flew over Damascus on Sunday as thousands of residents lined the main square in bursts of defiant ...

'No one party or sect should feel unsafe,' says Qatari foreign ministry, as states meet to assess collapse of Assad regime.

As reports continued to emerge from the Syrian capital, Damascus, where opposition forces declared victory overnight on State television, the UN chief said in a ...

PM Netanyahu said the 1974 disengagement agreement had "collapsed" with the rebel takeover of Syria.

Hafez and his son Bashar killed countless people over five decades and oversaw the country's descent into kleptocracy.

The private residence of deposed Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad was ransacked after rebels took over the capital, forcing him to flee the country.

BEIRUT, Lebanon-- Syrian rebels swept into Damascus on Sunday declaring they had toppled "tyrant" President Bashar al-Assad, whose current whereabouts are ...

President Joe Biden on Sunday called the extraordinary fall of the Assad regime in Syria “a moment of risk” and “historic opportunity” while offering a ...

Russia has granted the al-Assad family asylum on 'humanitarian grounds', Russian news agencies report.

Opposition forces marched into Damascus on Dec. 8, seemingly ending the half-century rule of the Assad family. But what happens next?

Biden praises, warns of uncertainty as analysts question his administration's years-long deprioritisation of Syria.

Al-Julani speaks from Damascus's historic Umayyad Mosque, tells Syrians that building a new country will be hard work.

Who could have predicted that after nearly 14 years of civil war and five years of stalemate, the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria would collapse in just ...

Abu Mohammad al-Jolani's road to Damascus has been long. He has talked openly about his change along the way. From young al Qaeda fighter two decades ago, ...

Syria's former President Bashar al-Assad is in Moscow with his family after Russia granted them asylum on humanitarian grounds, a Kremlin source told ...

The HTS chief has evolved from jihadist leader to rebel statesman while fighting to overthrow Bashar al-Assad.

Insurgents control the capital Damascus, President Bashar Assad has fled into hiding, and for the first time after 50 years of his family's iron hand, ...

Coverage of the extraordinary events in Syria have filled the front pages in the UK, US and Australia.

Syrians awakened on Monday to a hopeful if uncertain future, after rebels seized the capital Damascus and President Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia, ending a ...

The swift and unexpected fall of the Syrian capital, Damascus, to Sunni opposition forces marks a pivotal moment in the modern history of the Middle East.