The clashes, which also left around 50 wounded, are the first outbreak of deadly violence in the area since dozens of people ...

Seven months after the fall of Syria's former president Bashar al-Assad, FRANCE 24’s Wassim Nasr gained access to sites ...

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. Bashar al-Assad’s regime had withstood ...

Bashar al-Assad's militias are "cleansing" towns and villages of their Sunni Muslim inhabitants across the Syrian province of Homs, refugee families and residents have told The Daily Telegraph.

For decades, the Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad built his power on a single, relentless narrative of survival: The regime presented itself as the only shield against annihilation for the ...

HTS is a Sunni Islamist militant and political group that traces its roots to the beginning of the Syrian civil war. ... Here's what to know as Syrian rebels say Bashar al-Assad has fled.

When Sunni rebels toppled Bashar al-Assad last December, they vowed to form an inclusive Syrian government by March. Sunnis comprise around 75 percent of Syria with the remaining 25 percent made ...

Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham, ... has its roots in the Sunni "nationalist jihadism" of the early 1990s. ... It took the Taliban 10 days to race to victory and HTS a mere week to unseat Bashar al-Assad.

60 Minutes' Charlie Rose met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad this weekend. Assad seems to be living in a parallel universe from what you hear on the news in the U.S., but his story has not ...

In 2012, Barack Obama declared a "red line," warning that the use of chemical weapons by Bashar al-Assad’s regime would prompt direct US intervention in Syria’s then-year-old civil war.