Syria

The rebels' moves around Damascus, reported by the monitor and a rebel commander, came after the Syrian army withdrew from much of southern part of the country, ...

Syrian insurgents reached Damascus as part of a rapidly moving offensive that saw them take over some of Syria's largest cities.

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

Syrian rebels appear to have entered the capital Damascus after facing scant resistance from regime forces, as President Bashar al-Assad's decades-long grip ...

Rebel offensive makes big gains, pushing on regime forces from north, south and east; HTS-led troops enter Homs on road to capital, seize areas near Israel ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Syrian government appears to have fallen after a lightning offensive by rebels. President Bashar al Assad fled Damascus on a plane for an unknown ...

Biden administration officials, watching the remarkable speed of the Syrian rebel advance, increasingly see the possibility of the regime of Bashar al-Assad ...

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.

Should Damascus fall to the opposition forces, the government would have control of only two of 14 provincial capitals.

Assad had been in power for 25 years and his family ruled Syria for half a century.

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 ...

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 ...

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

After more than a year of relentless conflict in the Middle East, the stunning capitulation of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime will go down in the ...

Opposition fighters' lightning advance into the capital marks a historic turning point for the country.

"No-one slept in Syria last night... no Syrian abroad slept," Rania Kataf, who runs the Humans of Damascus Facebook page, said. "The whole community was holding ...

The defense forces of the Russia and Iran-backed Assad government have been struggling to stave off the lightning advance of rebel forces.

The statement from Assad's ally is the first on his whereabouts since rebels took control of Damascus.

Taoiseach - Protection of Syria's civilian population & peaceful transition must be the overriding priority. Taoiseach Simon Harris says the fall of the ...

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

The former dictator's whereabouts are still unknown following the lightning advance of opposition forces on the capital.

Conflict started 13 years ago during Arab Spring and escalated to involve opposition groups, extremists and world powers.

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 ...

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

President Bashar al Assad has left office and Syria after giving orders for there to be a peaceful transfer of power, says Russia - as Abu Mohammed al ...

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

Ex-president has not been pictured since he vowed to 'crush' rebels a week ago and his location is unclear.

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 ...

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 ...