Bashar al-Assad became a client of Iran and Russia and fled the country when they stopped supporting him. The US is in the ...
The Assads have ruled Syria for over half a century. Today, rebel forces have breached their seat of power Damascus, ...
In the villages above the Syrian port city of Tartus they once hailed the sons who died fighting in Bashar al-Assad's service ...
Moscow can seek to preserve its most important assets in Syria through cooperation with an Alawite autonomous zone—if that ...
Bashar Assad and his family are Alawites, and the prospect of a state has been raised for years. Some Russians have expressed ...
Across Syria, the country’s rebel leaders are struggling to contain revenge attacks, as vigilantes seize on the chaos of the moment to settle personal scores.
Bel Trew meets the new police chief in Syria’s third city, tasked with keeping the peace now that forces led by the Islamist ...
Follow the latest on Syria At the beginning of an Oil Ministry meeting in Damascus this week, the new director general ...