Israeli defence minister Israel Katz has ordered the military to 鈥榩repare to remain鈥� throughout the winter in the UN-patrolled buffer zone between Israeli and Syrian forces on the strategic Golan Heights.
Syria鈥檚 interim government vowed on Thursday to institute the 鈥榬ule of law鈥� after years of abuses under ousted president Bashar al-Assad, as G7 powers pushed for an inclusive transition.
Syria鈥檚 new government spokesman told AFP on Thursday the country鈥檚 constitution and parliament would be suspended for the duration of the three-month transition period.
Syria鈥檚 new prime minister said the Islamist-led alliance that ousted president Bashar al-Assad will 鈥榞uarantee鈥� the rights of all religious groups and called on the millions who fled the war to return home...
Iran鈥檚 supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday the weakening of the anti-Israel 鈥榬esistance鈥� after the ouster of Bashar al-Assad in Syria would not diminish Tehran鈥檚 power...
The rebels who ousted president Bashar al-Assad and are now in power in Syria appointed a transitional head of government on Tuesday to run the country until March聽 1, a statement said...
A defence ministry research centre in northern Damascus was destroyed and about 10 navy ships were damaged in coastal Latakia in overnight strikes attributed to Israel by a Syria war monitor.
A Syria war monitor said Monday that overnight Israeli strikes targeted military positions and depots in several parts of the country, after Islamist-led rebels ousted president Bashar al-Assad...
The Kremlin declined on Monday to confirm reports that toppled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad had fled to Moscow, adding that it was 鈥榮urprised鈥� by the rebel takeover...
THE question of who ousted Bashar al-Assad has dominated countless headlines, debates and think tank discussions. Yet, for the millions of Syrians whose lives have been shaped 鈥� and shattered 鈥� by decades of brutal governance, this question is a distraction. The real focus should be on the human cost of oppression, the erasure of freedoms and the...
Syrian rescuers searched a jail synonymous with the worst atrocities of ousted president Bashar al-Assad鈥檚 rule, as people in the capital flocked to a central square Monday to celebrate their country鈥檚 freedom...
The Kremlin declined on Monday to confirm reports that toppled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad had fled to Moscow, adding that it was 鈥榮urprised鈥� by the rebel takeover.
Ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and his family have received political asylum from the Kremlin for 鈥榟umanitarian reasons鈥�, reports Al Jazeera.
Iran鈥檚 embassy in Syria was vandalised on Sunday, an AFP photographer said, after Islamist-led rebels declared the fall of Tehran ally Bashar al-Assad following a sweeping offensive that culminated in Damascus.
Celebrations erupted around Syria and crowds ransacked President Bashar al-Assad's luxurious home on Sunday after Islamist-led rebels swept into Damascus and declared he had fled the country, in a spectacular end to five decades of Baath party rule.
Syrians around the country on Sunday toppled and trampled on statues of president Bashar al-Assad鈥檚 late father Hafez, who founded the brutal system of government that his son inherited...
Syrian prime minister Mohammed al-Jalali said Sunday he was ready to 鈥榗ooperate鈥� with any leadership chosen by the people, after rebels said 鈥榯yrant鈥� president Bashar al-Assad had fled the country...
The Lebanese army said on Sunday it was reinforcing its presence on the border with neighbouring Syria, after the government of president Bashar al-Assad fell and rebels took the capital Damascus...
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said on Sunday that president Bashar al-Assad had left the country, after losing swathes of territory to a lightning rebel offensive while Islamist-led rebels said that they were 鈥榚ntering Damascus鈥�...
Rebels on a lightning advance through Syria said on Saturday they have begun to encircle Damascus as government forces denied they had withdrawn from areas near the capital.
The top diplomats from Iran, Turkey and Russia met in Qatar on Saturday for talks on Syria, where rebel forces have taken parts of the country in a lightning offensive.
Local factions have taken control of more areas in Daraa province, including Daraa city and they now control more than 90 per cent of the province, as Syrian government forces successively pulled out...
Islamist-led rebel forces captured the central Syrian city of Hama on Thursday, overrunning forces loyal to president Bashar al-Assad only days after capturing Aleppo in a lightning offensive.
Syrian government forces launched a counterattack against Islamist-led rebels around the key city of Hama on Wednesday after suffering a string of staggering losses, a war monitor said...
Islamist-led rebels advanced on Syria鈥檚 fourth-largest city Hama Tuesday, buoyed by their lightning capture of swathes of the north in an offensive that ended four years of relative calm.
THE collapse of the Baathist government of Syria in the north of the country, as the al-Qaeda affiliate HTS (Hay鈥檃t Tahrir al-Sham or the Levant Liberation Council) advanced into Aleppo and Hama, could reconfigure the Middle East. The rapidity of the advance and the Muslim fundamentalist leadership of the fighters remind me of the fall of the government of Ashraf Ghani before the Taliban advance...
The Syrian military and its ally Russia conducted deadly joint air raids on areas under Islamist-led rebel control on Monday, as they battle a lightning offensive that has wrested swathes of Syria from government control.
Syria鈥檚 second-largest city Aleppo has fallen from government control for the first time since the country鈥檚 conflict began more than a decade ago, a war monitor said on Sunday, after...
A monitor of Syria鈥檚 war said on Saturday that jihadist rebels now control a majority of Aleppo city, reporting Russian air strikes on parts of Syria鈥檚 second city for the first time since 2016.
