Iranian officials are still wondering how its dear ally Bashar al-Assad fell so fast, and why his military was lost before ...

DAMASCUS/AMMAN/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Twenty-three-year-old Syrian military conscript Farhan al-Khouli was badly paid and ...

Members of Bashar Assad's army or a pro-government militia, gather to be registered with Syrian rebels as part of an ...

The fourth division was ostensibly the most elite and ruthless unit in the Syrian army, commanded by Assad’s younger brother, Maher. It proved to be anything but. Lieut Ibrahim described an ...

The rebels’ path to victory is littered with evidence of Syria’s defeated military. It also reflects the sizable task of ...

The collapse of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria following a lightning rebel offensive in November has shaken Assad-ally ...

In a wide-ranging interview, the political economist Helen Thompson discusses how the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria has ...

A British-based war monitor said clashes between Islamists who took over Syria and supporters of ousted President Bashar ...

THE leader of an anti-Putin militant group fighting inside Russia says the tyrant is set to fall like his pal Bashar al-Assad ...

The Syrians — some of them soldiers and relatives of the U.S. -backed Syrian Free Army forces against now-deposed President ...

While the Assads lived in luxury, most Qardaha residents -- many, like Assad, members of the Alawite minority sect -- ...

The Syrian transitional government is launching its first crackdown on political dissidents following an "ambush" by ...