The story of post-independent Syria is intricately linked to the Assad family belonging to the minority Alawite sect, which ...

The sudden political developments in Syria have the Greek community and Orthodox Christians on alert, asking for the support ...

Assad's army carries out a massacre in Hama in central Syria, killing what rights group say were thousands of people, an event that traumatised the country for generations to come. The killings ...

Anti government forces ride past a Syrian regime military vehicle overturned on the road, after rebel took control of the central Hama governorate, on December 7, 2024. Overall, the insurgent ...

A lightning offensive, led by the armed Islamist faction Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, swept through Aleppo, Hama, Daraa and Homs in just eleven days, dislodging Bashar al-Assad’s iron grip over Syria ...

After seizing Aleppo, rebel forces headed south advancing toward Hama, Syria's fourth biggest city. It lay on a road leading to Homs, Syria's third biggest city, and eventually on to Damascus.

An image of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, riddled with bullets, is seen on the facade of the provincial government office in the aftermath of the opposition’s takeover of Hama, Syria ...

For more than half a century ... Hama. It is not known how many people were killed in the massacre because of a media blackout, but estimates vary from between 10,000 and 40,000 dead. Politics in ...

WASHINGTON (7NEWS) — As dawn emerged over Syria's sky on Sunday, Syrians poured into streets worldwide to celebrate an unexpected turn in the country's history: an end to the half-century rule ...

With the fall of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, Vladimir V. Putin has suffered one of the biggest geopolitical setbacks of his quarter-century in power. By Anton Troianovski Lines of Russian ...