Then-president Bashar al-Assad, center, waves to his supporters at a polling station during presidential elections in the town of Douma, near the Syrian capital of Damascus, May 26, 2021.

For Israel’s leaders, Bashar al-Assad’s downfall was made possible by their recent assaults on Hezbollah, Iran and Syria, all of which weakened the Iran-backed axis.

Days after former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was overthrown from power, several reports are emerging in the geopolitical world alleging that Bashar al-Assad had handed over critical military ...

As Syria’s fragmented opposition groups continue their offensive against Bashar al-Assad’s forces, Israel is closely monitoring the situation across its border. On Friday, Israeli fighter jets ...

Soon after Bashar al-Assad's regime fell in Syria, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed Israel paved the way for the uprising by its attacks on Iran and its proxies.

Bashar al-Assad had ruled Syria for 24 years before fleeing the capital. via REUTERS Smoke billows from an Israeli airstrike on the outskirts of Damascus on Sunday.

Two weeks after Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was overthrown, the scope of Assad's decades-long abuse of human rights is coming into clearer focus. Imtiaz Tyab reports from Damascus. Dec 22, 2024 ...

Israel has said it's determined to destroy weapons and other military hardware that ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad and his father spent half of a century accumulating, before it can fall into the ...

The fall of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, the culmination of years of civil war, has given way to a power vacuum with different factions protecting their own interests – and vying for power ...

The departure of Bashar al-Assad from power in Syria has been met with a sense of jubilation in Washington, as politicians and pundits alike hail the development as a major setback for Iran ...

Missing American: A top Syrian general under President Bashar al-Assad told U.S. investigators that Austin Tice, an American journalist who went missing in 2012, was dead and provided the possible ...

In 2012, Barack Obama declared a "red line," warning that the use of chemical weapons by Bashar al-Assad’s regime would prompt direct US intervention in Syria’s then-year-old civil war.