Former rebel commander also declares himself president after weeks of de facto rule.

This hands the United States a major opportunity to remake policy regarding Damascus.The US has a unique opportunity because ...

New Damascus leadership says it's ready to cooperate with UN force, deploy troops to Golan to adhere to 1974 agreement that ...

Dozens of relatives and friends of people who went missing during the regime of deposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad rally in ... controlled by Lebanese Hezbollah and Iraqi Shia militias.

Pro-Iranian militias in Iraq, collectively part of the Hashd al Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Units), face increasing calls to ...

Bashar al-Assad – Backed by Iran and Russia A 2018 Times of Israel report noted that Iran maintained about ten military bases in Syria. Iran-backed Hezbollah, a political party with a powerful militia ...

Photos released by Syrian media show assault rifles, RPGs and ammunition, in apparent second instance this month of ...

Astro AWANI's Social Media Editor, Hilal Azmi shares his reflections from the ground in Aleppo, Syria, following the fall of ...

DAMASCUS: Almost 30 per cent of the millions of Syrian refugees living in Middle Eastern countries want to return home in the ...

Israeli forces will remain in southern Lebanon beyond a deadline stipulated in a ceasefire deal with Hezbollah because the ...