Syria

With Syrian rebels edging ever-closer to the capital, President Bashar Al-Assad is making a last-ditch attempt to remain in power, including indirect ...

Syria's rebel alliance is edging closer to the capital Damascus, after anti-regime forces swept across the country in a lightning offensive.

The fall of the city to rebel forces would be another major blow to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as it would isolate Damascus, cutting the city off from the ...

Rebels of the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group, engaged in a stunning offensive against the Syrian government, announced Sunday they had captured ...

Hassan Abdul-Ghani says opposition forces have begun to encircle capital in 'final stage' of offensive.

Syrian opposition groups say they had started to surround Syria's government-held capital Damascus. · Reports say Syrian army has withdrawn from much of the ...

Rumours surround the whereabouts of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, as rebels make advances into the capital city's suburbs.

Insurgents gained control after only a day of fighting, leaving President Bashar al-Assad's 24-year rule dangling by a thread as rebels marched on Damascus.

Syrian opposition fighters said early Sunday local time that they had entered Damascus and residents of the capital reported the sounds of gunfire and ...

There is a "sense of fear" about the days to come as rebels sweep towards Damascus in the face of limited opposition.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has reportedly left Syria after rebel forces completed a stunning advance on the capital.

President Bashar Assad and his father, Hafez Assad, combined to rule Syria for more than 50 years, always with an iron fist that crushed dissent and relied ...

Two senior Syrian officers told Reuters that Assad fled Damascus, his destination unknown, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said he had ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Insurgents' stunning march across Syria accelerated Saturday with news that they had reached the gates of the capital and that government ...

Videos, photos and maps show how Syrian fighters mounted a stunning offensive against the Assad regime, overtaking Aleppo and Hama, and closing in on Homs ...

BEIRUT (AP) — The head of a Syrian opposition war monitor said early Sunday that President Bashar Assad left the country for an undisclosed location, ...

The fall of Bashar al-Assad was unthinkable just a week ago, when rebels started their astonishing campaign from their base in Idlib, in Syria's north-west.

Opposition forces declare Syria free of al-Assad rule as the president reportedly flees the country.

The Syrian government collapsed early Sunday, falling to a lightning rebel offensive that seized control of the capital of Damascus and sent crowds into the ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian Prime Minister Mohammed Ghazi Jalali said early Sunday that the government is ready to “extend its hand” to the opposition and hand ...

Initially seen as a potential reformer, Bashar al-Assad ruled Syria by imposing a brutal regime that imprisoned tens of thousands of dissidents and killed ...

Opposition forces have taken control of the capital after a significant offensive. Here is how it unravelled.

Was the astonishing implosion of Bashar Assad's regime exclusively the result of its rottenness or did elements inside his government coordinate with ...

(Bloomberg) -- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has fled Damascus, according to multiple reports, after rebel forces entered the capital following a ...

The long rule of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is over, after rebels swept into the capital Damascus. The fighters declared the city “liberated” in a ...

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 (…)

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

Rebel fighters have captured the Syrian capital of Damascus, effectively toppling the Assad regime that has been in power in the country since 1971.

After more than 13 years of war, hundreds of thousands of people killed and millions displaced, the 24-year rule of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is over ...

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 ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government has apparently fallen after a stunning territorial advance by opposition groups over the past few days.

An Israeli soldier walks past tanks deployed near the Israel-Syria border in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on December 8, 2024. Jalaa Marey/AFP/Getty ...

He spoke on Sunday after a lightning rebel advance ended Syrian President Bashar Assad's rule. Netanyahu said the decades-old agreement had collapsed and that Syrian troops had abandoned their positions, necessitating the Israeli takeover. RELATED STORIES.

Israeli forces also bomb weapons depots in southern Syria and the capital Damascus, Israeli media reports.

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

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

The Syrian government collapsed early Sunday, falling to a lightning rebel offensive that seized control of the capital of Damascus and sent crowds into the ...

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 ...

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

Ottawa is urging Canadians to avoid all travel to Syria and to consider leaving the country if it's safe to do so.

Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president who inherited power in 2000 with promises of reform, only to brutally suppress his opponents in a war that claimed ...

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 ...