Assad, ending a 55-year dynasty begun by his father, dramatically shifts the pieces on the chessboard of the Middle East. The ...

The surrender of the Mazzeh air base outside Syrian capital Damascus by Bashar al-Assad's forces triggered a round of Israeli ...

The Kremlin confirmed on Dec. 11 that longtime Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad had fled to Moscow after rebels took the ...

As more than five decades of Assad family rule come to an end, Syrians are cautiously paving a way forward. As the year draws ...

Kobane, Syria, was home to one of the most famous military turning points in history. A small force of Kurdish guerrillas, ...

On November 27, armed opposition forces launched a large-scale offensive against government troops' positions in the Aleppo and Idlib provinces ...

For more than half a century, the Assad dynasty appeared to have an impregnable hold over Syria. Relying on a formidable security apparatus, brutal use of force, and powerful allies such as Russia, ...

Syrians ransacked Assad’s Damascus residence. Associated Press photos showed papers, books and glass shards strewn across rooms as people took appliances, clothing, furniture and other objects from ...

Shortly before Sunni Islamist-led rebels swept into the Syrian capital, Iran-backed guards fled their positions at the gates ...

U.N. peacekeepers' "freedom of movement is severely constrained in the current context," a U.N. official told Newsweek.

Brookings Institution Research in Foreign Policy Program Director Michael O’Hanlon talked about the collapse of Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria, what to expect from the rebel alliance now asserting ...

On Sunday, the murderous 50-year rule of the Assad family in Syria came to an end as rebel fighters rolled into Damascus and ...