When Syria’s rebels captured Aleppo late last week, it sent tremors through the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Those tremors have now become an earthquake. Many observers thought that capturing Hama ...

The fall of Bashar al-Assad’s brutal dictatorship seemed a distant prospect two weeks ago. But Syria’s rebels completed a speedy and stunning march to power on Sunday, starting an uncertain ...

At the historic Umayyad Mosque in the heart of Damascus, a red, white, black and green flag flies. On the other side of the Syrian capital, former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s palace burns ...

O n Dec. 10, longtime Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled to Moscow and abdicated his position as the country's strongman after a whirlwind 12 days of regime collapse. He had inherited his ...

It is unclear if Assad's Baathist despotism in Damascus can survive the weekend. Rebels are seizin town after town, city after city, and it doesn’t seem as though pro-regime forces can mount any ...

What Assad banked on as pillars propping up his regime are falling one by one, leaving him exposed and disposable. Israel had tolerated the Assad regime for decades because the regime’s ...

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Rebel groups said they were in response to recent artillery shelling from Assad’s regime. But it quickly became clear that wasn’t the case. Three days later, the first city would fall.

Video points to Assad regime’s involvement in large-scale trafficking of illicit drugs By Tim Lister , Kareem Khadder and Nechirvan Mando , CNN 3 minute read ...

On Dec. 10, longtime Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled to Moscow and abdicated his position as the country's strongman after a whirlwind 12 days of regime collapse. He had inherited his ...