Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez, ruled Syria for more than half a century but how did one family achieve and maintain ...

The downfall of the Assad regime has profound implications for the Middle East, particularly for Russia and Iran, whose regional influence has taken a severe blow. Israel, however, views this as a ...

The country may have exited the Axis of Resistance, but this does not mean that it has automatically crossed to the opposing ...

President Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia on December 8, leaving behind many of his collaborators, some of whom sought refuge in neighbouring countries. According to two sources, the ousted president, ...

The Syrian regime’s collapse came more quickly than the rebels had dreamed — the circumstances were both serendipitous and part of a larger global realignment.

Syria is in chaos. The danger to Israel and the West is that the next Syrian regime will be no friendlier than Assad was.

Transitions between administrations often become quiet periods of several months for hostage cases. But after 12 years in ...

The U.S. military killed ISIS leader Abu Yusif and another member in an airstrike conducted in Syria on Thursday, U.S.

Syrian dictator Bashar Assad fell amid complex geopolitical shifts, not because America and her allies are imperialists ...

To gain some insight into the year ahead, CFR fellows highlight some of the global developments they will be looking out for.

Ahmad Sharaa, the head of the Islamist rebel group Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham, will have real success by not making the same ousted ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed that his country was not defeated in Syria following the fall of its client ...