Syria

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

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

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

Türkiye, Hezbollah, Iran, and Russia Would Be Fighting Each Other Instead of the United States and Its Allies.

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

Syria's armed opposition groups say they have captured the capital and President Bashar al-Assad has fled the country.

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 ...

In a morning social media post, Republican Donald Trump indicated the US should have 'nothing to do' with Syria's war.

The Israeli army said Saturday its troops were assisting UN peacekeepers in the Golan Heights in repelling an attack "by armed individuals", while the ...

Iranian forces who'd been defending Syrian President Bashar Assad have "pretty much" evacuated from Syria, U.S. officials told CBS News.

Syrian dictator said jetted off to unknown locale, as thousands celebrate in streets * In 1st since 1974, IDF sets up positions in buffer zone with Syria to ...

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.

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.

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.

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

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 ...

IDF Helps Defend UN Post in Syria: The IDF said on December 7 that it assisted the United Nations in “repelling” an attack by armed gunmen on a UN post in ...

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

News and Press Release in English on Syrian Arab Republic about Protection and Human Rights; published on 7 Dec 2024 by ICMP.

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 (…)

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

Syrians poured out into the streets across Syria and around the world, jubilant at the end of Bashar al-Assad's rule. Al Jazeera spoke to six people who ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Israel takes up posts in area for the first time since 1974; IDF said to strike chemical weapons sites in Damascus and Hezbollah convoy fleeing to Lebanon.

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

As Moscow's top diplomat reeled in Doha, his Turkish counterpart appeared to know he had the upper hand.

'No one party or sect should feel unsafe,' says Qatari foreign ministry, as states meet to assess collapse of Assad regime.

Russian foreign minister says Moscow will do 'everything not to allow terrorists to prevail', as Syrian rebels advance.

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 ...

The rebel coalition that has stormed into the Syrian capital, forcing the departure of Assad after 13 years of horrendously costly civil war, had prepared ...

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

President Bashar al-Assad's regime has fallen in Syria, almost 14 years after an uprising against it began and more than half a century after his father ...

PM Netanyahu said the 1974 disengagement agreement had "collapsed" with the rebel takeover of Syria.

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 ...

Hafez and his son Bashar killed countless people over five decades and oversaw the country's descent into kleptocracy.

Israeli forces take advantage of Syrian revolution to seize more territory.

Russia has granted the al-Assad family asylum on 'humanitarian grounds', Russian news agencies report.

President Joe Biden detailed some initial next steps his administration will take following the extraordinary fall of the Assad regime in Syria, offering a ...

With the fall of Damascus, Iran can no longer deny that its political and military 'axis of resistance' has collapsed.

President Joe Biden called the toppling of Syria's dictatorship a “historic opportunity” for Syrian people. He also warned about some risks posed by the ...

The private residence of deposed Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad was ransacked after rebels took over the capital, forcing him to flee the country.

Opposition forces marched into Damascus on Dec. 8, seemingly ending the half-century rule of the Assad family. But what happens next?

Biden praises, warns of uncertainty as analysts question his administration's years-long deprioritisation of Syria.

Insurgents control the capital Damascus, President Bashar Assad has fled into hiding, and for the first time after 50 years of his family's iron hand, ...

The HTS chief has evolved from jihadist leader to rebel statesman while fighting to overthrow Bashar al-Assad.

Crowds of people waved the Syrian revolutionary flag and pulled down statues and portraits of the president and his father, Hafez, while celebratory gunfire and ...

Who could have predicted that after nearly 14 years of civil war and five years of stalemate, the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria would collapse in just ...

Israeli ground forces have overtly crossed into Syrian territory for the first time since the 1973 October War, passing the demilitarized border zone, ...

Coverage of the extraordinary events in Syria have filled the front pages in the UK, US and Australia.

The swift and unexpected fall of the Syrian capital, Damascus, to Sunni opposition forces marks a pivotal moment in the modern history of the Middle East.

Most of Monday's papers lead on the rebels toppling the Assad regime, as Syrians celebrate its fall.

December 8, 2024 - Ottawa, Ontario - Global Affairs Canada. The Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today issued the following statement:.

Over the past ten days, a range of Syrian rebel forces led by the group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) have mounted an offensive against the Syrian regime of Bashar ...

World leaders are hoping that stability can be preserved in Syria after Bashar al-Assad's regime was overthrown by rebels on Sunday · US President Joe Biden vows ...

Russian state media reports that ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is in Moscow and has been granted asylum after Russia's Foreign Ministry said earlier ...

There will be perilous days to come and the future is uncertain, but around the world we Syrians are celebrating, says author and researcher Ammar Azzouz.

The United States has long been the leading provider of humanitarian assistance to the Syrian people, providing food, medical supplies and shelter for ...

Israel has said it has carried out airstrikes on “strategic weapons systems” inside Syria and that ground troop operations on Syrian territory were a “limited, ...

The EU issued a statement on the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, expressing its support for the Syrian people and urging all actors to avoid any further ...

Situation Report in English on Syrian Arab Republic and 1 other country about Protection and Human Rights and Shelter and Non-Food Items; published on 8 Dec ...

Strikes were heard in Damascus early Monday, according to a CNN team in the Syrian capital, after President Bashar al-Assad and his family fled to Russia in ...

Defence minister Israel Katz on Monday said the country's military was continuing to seize “high ground” inside Syria after tanks and infantry moved into a ...

GENEVA – Today marks a historic new beginning for the Syrian people who have suffered unspeakable violence and atrocities over the past 14 years.

The IDF also released photos of its personnel who crossed from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights into the buffer zone where UN peacekeepers are based.

The rebels Hayat Tahrir al-Sham free prisoners of the former president, Bashar al-Assad, who fled to Russia.

“Assad must go,” said Barack Obama in 2013. More than a decade later, the Syrian dictator has gone. But the mood in the US and Europe is wary rather than ...

The swift downfall of Bashar al-Assad is reverberating in Syria and throughout the Middle East. Some changes are already apparent. Syrians who fled the ...

Israeli forces have seized control of a previously demilitarised buffer zone in Syrian-controlled territory in the Golan Heights and attacked what it said ...

After decades of brutal rule, Bashar al-Assad's regime has been toppled. Here's what you need to know · (File photo) yrian President Bashar Assad is seen during ...