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Footage and images circulating on social media show what appears to be the mausoleum of the father of the recently deposed dictator, Bashar al-Assad, with a hole in the center where an ornate ...

Lebanon Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji on Thursday met with French Ambassador to Lebanon Herve Magro, who handed him a copy of the documents and maps of the French archive that are related to the ...

Israel is shifting to a permanent war footing, framing its military operations as existential. But Israel's wars today have little to do with survival. The post Israel's State of Permanent War Is ...

An aerial view of the site where thousands of people believed to be killed and buried by the ousted regime of Bashar al-Assad, considered one of the largest mass grave site to be discovered in Al ...

Al Jazeera’s Imran Khan said the targets appear to be military sites of the ousted Bashar al-Assad regime. Israel has carried out these types of attacks many times before, Khan explained ...

Syria's small Druze community largely kept out of the country's long civil war but since president Bashar al-Assad's ouster in December it has found itself confronting the new Islamist-led government ...

the latest such visit following the fall of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad. The trip comes after local community leader Bakhour Chamntoub said unknown assailants broke into and desecrated the tomb of ...

Authorities in Syria have assured a thorough investigation into clashes that are reported to have killed 13 people in a town near the capital, Damascus, largely populated by the country’s Druze ...

Since 2015, Issam Buwaydani has been head of Jaish al-Islam, a group that fought against the now-ousted ruler Bashar al-Assad and once controlled the Eastern Ghouta area near Damascus. After Syria's ...

Bashar al-Assad, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday. The remarks in a speech gave a new glimpse into Israel’s thinking and activities during Assad’s final days in power, prior to ...

(photo credit: Dalati Nohra/Reuters) The overthrow of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria represented ... Acknowledging as much, Joseph Khalil Aoun, the country’s newly elected president ...