Bashar al-Assad was the 19th president of Syria, entering office in 2000 succeeding his father Hafez al-Assad as the country's leader and as head of the Ba'ath Party. He was ousted in December 2024 by ...

Syria’s interior ministry announces the arrest of a general from ousted president Bashar al-Assad’s era, accusing him of involvement in a 2013 chemical attack on a suburb of the capital, Damascus.

The departure of Bashar al-Assad from power in Syria has been met with a sense of jubilation in Washington, as politicians and pundits alike hail the development as a major setback for Iran. Little is ...

Since the brutal Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in 2023, Israel has won a series of remarkable tactical victories against its enemies.

Israel’s future security depends on destroying the military machine of the former Assad regime, before it falls into the wrong hands. The stunningly rapid fall of Bashar al-Assad’s evil regime in ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The Israeli army said two rockets were fired from Syria into open areas in the Israel-controlled Golan Heights on Tuesday, marking the first time a strike has been launched ...

Bereaved families demand death penalty, starting with Atef Najib, a former general and cousin of the ousted dictator, who was allegedly behind the torture of children in 2011 ...

Al Jazeera has published satellite images that show Israel is building out seven military bases within the demilitarized buffer zone with Syria following the ouster of Bashar al-Assad in December. One ...

While a new Syrian government works to establish order since Syrian rebels toppled Bashar al-Assad's government, the political power vacuum leaves some of the country's neighbors anxious to ensure ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The Israeli army said two rockets were fired from Syria into open areas in the Israel-controlled Golan Heights on Tuesday, marking the first time a strike has been launched ...