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 ...

AFTER 13 years of civil war, Syria's opposition militias sensed an opportunity to loosen President Bashar al-Assad's grip on power when, about six months ...

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

A deal has also been done to ensure the safety of Russian military bases in Syria. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Syrians awakened on Monday to a hopeful if uncertain future, after rebels seized the capital Damascus and President Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia, ending a ...

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

President Joe Biden on Sunday called the extraordinary fall of the Assad regime in Syria “a moment of risk” and “historic opportunity” while offering a ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

World powers vowed to work for stability in Syria and the surrounding region. 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 ...

DAMASCUS: Syrians awakened on Monday (Dec 9) to a hopeful if uncertain future, after rebels seized the capital Damascus and President Bashar al-Assad fled ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed the ousting of Assad as an “historic day”. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Long-suffering Syrians have been rejoicing in the streets after one of the world's most brutal dictatorships suddenly crumbled in a few short weeks.

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.

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, ...

Syria's longtime ruler fled earlier today and was granted asylum by Russia after opposition groups stormed Damascus.

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

A toppled statue of Mr Bashar al-Assad's brother Bassel liying on the ground in Aleppo on Dec 8, 2024. Maxar Technologies/Handout via REUTERS.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rebels, led by Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), launched a lightning offensive that captured major cities in less than two weeks, and ...

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

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 civil war prosecuted by Assad led millions of Syrians to flee the country, creating a refugee crisis that destabilised the EU and generated severe tensions ...

Incursion met with condemnation from Jordan amid concern aim is to permanently occupy or annex the area.

The Syrian diaspora celebrates the fall of Bashar al-Assad's brutal regime but says there are still unanswered questions over what happens next.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer says no decision has been made yet on whether the UK government could remove Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) from a list of ...

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 ...

Less than took weeks ago, a rebel offensive led by al-Qaida offshoot Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) rekindled Syria's long-frozen civil war, rapidly leading to ...

The home secretary says the situation is "moving extremely fast" after the fall of the Assad regime.

The worst scenario for Syrians is that their country will spin into violent chaos, writes the BBC's Jeremy Bowen.

Austria, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Greece have all said they will suspend asylum decisions for now.

Belgium, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, the U.K. said they will halt Syrian asylum applications one day after rebel forces ousted the country's ...

Toppled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's prime minister says he has agreed to hand power to the opposition-led Salvation Government, headed by Mohammed al- ...