Syria

BEIRUT: Syrian rebel forces said on Friday (Dec 6) their lightning advance reached the central city of Homs, which could position the insurgents to topple ...

Assad's forces have offered little resistance so far, as attention turns to how his allies will react.

A visual guide to the latest developments as advancing Syrian fighters set their sights on Damascus.

Turkey's support of the Syrian opposition not only weakens Assad but targets the Kurdish military stationed in northern Syria across the Turkish border.

Rebels in Syria are making rapid advances against the government forces of President Bashar al-Assad. Assad has managed to stay in power throughout the ...

The government responded by bombing Hama for several days while Syrian troops moved in to crush the uprising. Syrian ...

The Indian government on Friday (December 6, 2024) issued a travel advisory for Syria, strongly advising Indian nationals to avoid all travel to the country ...

Syria's president might be toppled, or a new civil war could break out with Abu Mohammed Al-Jawlani's HTS forces. But another ceasefire seems the most ...

Syrian opposition forces claim to have taken control of Daraa city in southwestern Syria, inching closer to the capital Damascus.

Rebel forces in southern Syria have reportedly captured most of the Deraa region - the birthplace of the 2011 uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.

The anti-Assad regime forces began a fresh offensive last week and have taken the cities of Hama and Aleppo.

If President Bashar Assad's military loses Homs, it could be a crippling blow. The city, parts of which were controlled by insurgents until 2014, ...

Five years ago, there were frozen conflicts in eastern Ukraine, Gaza and Lebanon. All have since flared into open conflicts that shattered the status quos.

Western and Arab states, as well as Israel, would like to see Iran's influence in Syria curtailed, but none wish for a radical Islamist regime to replace ...

More than 280000 people have been uprooted in northwest Syria in a matter of days following the sudden and massive offensive into Government-controlled ...

Moammar Ali has been searching for his older brother for 39 years. In 1986, Syrian soldiers arrested the university student Ali Hassan al-Ali, then 18, at a ...

In a region “already on fire,” analysts say, rebels' advance toward Damascus is a barometer of the shifting power dynamics that also affect nations like ...

If Hayat Tahrir al-Sham captures Syria's third largest city, it will mark a significant strategic victory and cut off Assad-held Damascus from the coast.

Daraa, known as the 'cradle of the revolution' is fourth city al-Assad loses in a single week.

Rebel sources said the military agreed to make an orderly withdrawal from Daraa under a deal giving army officials safe passage to the capital Damascus, about ...

Syria's army said it was redeploying in two southern provinces Saturday, after a war monitor reported Damascus had lost control of most of Daraa province, ...

Syrian rebels pressed their lightning advance on Saturday, saying they had seized most of the south, as government forces dug in to defend the key central ...

It was the first time that opposition forces reach the outskirts of the Syrian capital since 2018, when Syrian troops recaptured the region adjacent to the ...

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

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

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

He added that opposition fighters on Saturday were also marching from eastern Syria toward the Damascus suburb of Harasta. A commander with the insurgents, ...

BEIRUT: Rebels on a lightning advance through Syria said they were nearing Damascus on Saturday (Dec 7), although Bashar al-Assad's government denied that ...

Syrian rebel leader told fighters to prepare to take the seat of President Bashar al-Assad's government. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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

Hassan Abdul-Ghani, an insurgent commander, said fighters were heading from eastern and southern Syria towards Damascus.

President Bashar al-Assad used Russian and Iranian firepower to beat back rebel forces during years of civil war but never defeated them, ...

Syrian rebels entered suburbs of the city of Homs on Saturday, sources said, pressing a lightning week-long advance as front lines collapse across the ...

Syrian rebel forces on Saturday made major advances in their offensive against Syrian government forces, with reports saying rebels were closing in on the ...

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

Protests spread like wildfire in neighbouring provinces after rebels claimed to have started encircling the capital. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The fall of Homs gives the insurgents control over Syria's strategic heartland. Read more at straitstimes.com.

BEIRUT: Islamist-led rebels announced on Sunday (Dec 8) that they had captured the strategic city of.

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 ...

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

The head of a Syrian opposition war monitor said President Bashar Assad had left the country for an undisclosed location, fleeing ahead of insurgents who said ...

Since about that time, conflict in Syria was static with the rebels largely confined to the Idlib governate, which is adjacent to the Aleppo governate. Clearly, ...

With insurgents closing in on Damscus, questions remain over whether the Assad regime will dig in, and if Hayat Tahrir al-Sham are as moderate as they seem.

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 ...

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

Two senior Syrian officers told Reuters that Assad had fled Damascus, his destination unknown. The report could not be independently verified. The Syrian leader ...

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.

Rebels on Sunday (Dec 8) declared the end of President Bashar al-Assad's rule in Syria, saying they have toppled him as they swept into Damascus and sent ...

The fall of Damascus would leave government forces in control of only two of the 14 provincial capitals: Latakia and Tartus.

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 ...

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 ...

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

Syrian opposition fighters have declared that the country has been “liberated” after they stormed the capital and announced that President Bashar al-Assad ...

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

Jolani heads Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which is rooted in Syria's branch of Al-Qaeda. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The rebels are led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, along with an umbrella group of Turkish-backed Syrian militias called the Syrian National Army.

Rebels seized Damascus and ousted him from power after 24 years as president. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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 ...

As opposition fighters take control of Syria's capital, the whereabouts of deposed ruler Bashar al-Assad are unknown.

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 ...

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

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

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.

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 ...

Syrian rebels have toppled President Bashar al-Assad after a lightning offensive which in under two weeks has seen major cities slip from government's ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

The dramatic victory of rebel groups in the Syrian civil war is a defeat for Russia and Iran, the European Union's top diplomat declared, as government ...

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

JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday (Dec 8) he had ordered the Israeli military to "seize" a demilitarised buffer zone on ...

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

Biden said the US will support Syria's neighbours through the period of transition. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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