Syria

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

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

Whereabouts of President Bashar al-Assad unknown as rebel group says it has begun entering the capital.

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

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

Armed men pose for pictures near a military vehicle belonging to the Syrian regime forces and seized by anti government forces, on fire after it was hit by ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The Syrian army command has reportedly notified officers that President Bashar al-Assad's rule has ended after an offensive led by rebels who have declared ...

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 ...

Since the invasion of Iraq, the US has struggled to find a policy for Syria that could accommodate the vastly different needs of its allies Israel, Jordan, ...

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

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 ...

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

Opposition forces declare Syria free of Assad rule as the president reportedly flees the country.

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.

The Syrian government appeared to have fallen early Sunday as rebel troops declared the capital Damascus “free” after entering the city to scant resistance ...

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 fighters' lightning advance into the capital marks a historic turning point for the country.

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 ...

Syria's iron-fisted leader Bashar al-Assad is the second generation of an autocratic family dynasty that held power for more than five decades and his ...

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

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

President Bashar al-Assad has reportedly fled Damascus as rebels entered the Syrian capital.

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

News and Press Release in English on Syrian Arab Republic about Protection and Human Rights; published on 8 Dec 2024 by ICRC.

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

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 (…)

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.

With the fall of Damascus, Iran can longer deny that its political and military 'axis of resistance' has collapsed.

Mr. al-Jolani, 42, spearheaded a lightning assault that led to the fall of President Bashar al-Assad.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

Syria's president Bashar al-Assad has fled Syria as Islamist-led rebels swept into Damascus, triggering celebrations across the country and beyond at the ...

Syrian rebels broadcast first news bulletin on state television after Moscow says Assad has left the country; Israeli airstrike on security complex, ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

After 13 years of war, Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria has been defeated. What comes next? How the Assad regime collapsed slowly, then all at once.

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

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 ...

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

By John Lyons, global affairs editor, ABC. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, left, talks to Russian President Vladimir Putin during.

CNN's Nic Robertson looks back at deposed former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's more than two decades of brutal leadership that ultimately brought about ...

Assad is known for a brutal rule over Syria, which has been devastated by a civil war since 2011.

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

Syrian rebel forces have taken Damascus in a lightning offensive and President Bashar al-Assad has fled the country, in a stunning turn of events after 13 ...

PM Benjamin Netanyahu says “hostile forces” will not be tolerated near border, but offers “hand of peace” to Syrians who want peace with Israel.

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 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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

The long rule of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is over, after rebels swept into the capital Damascus on Sunday. Follow the latest live news updates here.

The Syrian civil defence group known as the White Helmets says it is investigating reports from survivors of the country's notorious Saydnaya prison that ...

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

Analysis: Abu Mohammad al-Jolani's mosque speech was about arrival and survival. It's his actions, though, that will secure the latter.

Anthony Albanese describes situation in country as 'moving' but does not commit to repatriation of 40 citizens in detention camps.

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: At long last, the Assad regime has fallen. DETROW: In a speech from the White House, Biden took some credit for the fall of Assad's ...