Turkish academic Behlul Ozkan explains how and why Turkey's pro-military rulers backed an Islamist uprising in the early 1980s against the regime of Hafez al-Assad, leading Damascus to open its doors ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad visited a Russian air ... of Moscow's military effort in support of Assad since 2015, when the Russian air force began bombing insurgents who were threatening ...

She moved to Syria in 2000 and married former ophthalmologist Bashar al-Assad, just months after he succeeded his father Hafez al-Assad as president. The couple were initially presented as ...