After decades of dictatorship and 13 years of civil war, can Syria put itself back together? Our journalists traveled the ...

Syrian rebels seized Damascus on Sunday, and long-time President Bashar ... once an al-Qaeda affiliate, declared in a statement on state-owned TV that Syria was "free from the tyrant" Assad.

At 86, Ayatollah Khamenei appears to be steering Iran through one of its most perilous geopolitical moments, whilst himself being one if Israel's main targets.

As the death toll rises and the risk of a wider regional war grows by the hour, the international community is urging ...