Syria

Syrian rebels declared President Bashar al-Assad's ouster after seizing control of Damascus on Sunday, ending his family's iron-fisted rule after more than ...

Toppled president came to power keen to show he was different to his father but proved to be as repressive.

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 ...

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

Responding to the ousting of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad following the seizure of power by opposition forces in the capital city of Damascus, ...

With the fall of Damascus, Iran can longer deny that its political and military 'axis of resistance' has collapsed.

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 ...

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 ...

Ex-president has not been pictured since he vowed to 'crush' rebels a week ago and his location is unclear.

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 (…)

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 ...

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

There have been large celebrations in major European cities after Syrian rebels ousted the country's longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad.

Celebrations on streets of Syrian cities as as Assad regime appears to have fallen.

If not for his handsome older brother's appetite for risk, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad might still be a bookish ophthalmologist living in London.

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

Syrians around the world are celebrating after the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government following a rapid rebel offensive.

Syrian opposition leaders have agreed to guarantee the safety of Russia's strategically important military bases and diplomatic institutions...

Crowds of people waved the Syrian revolutionary flag and pulled down statues and portraits of the president and his father, Hafez, while celebratory gunfire and ...

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

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 ...

The long rule of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is over, after rebels swept into the capital Damascus on Sunday. Follow the latest live news updates here.

Peter Dutton said it was too dangerous to go to this Syrian prison camp. We went there anyway. By Michael Bachelard.

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

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad oversaw a merciless crackdown on a pro-democracy revolt that morphed into one of the bloodiest wars of the century.

Over the past ten days, a range of Syrian rebel forces led by the group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) have mounted an offensive against the Syrian regime of Bashar ...

Most of Monday's papers lead on the rebels toppling the Assad regime, as Syrians celebrate its fall.

Assad was caught off guard, and his forces were clearly unprepared. He withdrew his remaining troops from Aleppo to regroup and gain time for reinforcements to ...

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.