The leader of the former rebel group that toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad has been named the country’s interim ...

After the fall of President Bashar al-Assad ... Syria under Mr. Assad and before him his father, Hafez al-Assad, never considered Lebanon an independent country. As an occupier starting in ...

"At least under the former dictator, Bashar al-Assad," he says ... We meet some of them at our final stop at a Shiite shrine in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: (Singing in ...

However, Syrian leaders have long viewed Lebanon as a lost territory and fertile ground for sowing its influence. Led by Hafez al-Assad, Bashar’s father, Syria intervened in Lebanon’s civil ...

Syria was the dominant power in Lebanon for three decades under the Assad family, with president Hafez al-Assad intervening in its 1975-1990 civil war and his son Bashar al-Assad only withdrawing ...

The prisoners include Lebanese who had gone to fight with rebels and jihadists against the forces of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad during the conflict, which began in 2011, and were arrested upon ...

It already appears evident that the days of Russia serving as its leading arms supplier have come to an ignominious end.

Tensions are high on Syria’s border with Lebanon. The ouster of President Bashar al-Assad led to worry that violence could spill over into neighboring countries. By Aaron Boxerman Syria’s main ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on Thursday that the country is poised to reestablish diplomatic ties with Syria and increase agricultural exports to Lebanon, despite the ongoing ...

A new type of Syrian refugee is fleeing across the border into Lebanon: those who once supported dictator Bashar Al-Assad.