Bedouin fighters at Mazraa village on the outskirts of Sweida city, during clashes in southern Syria on July 18, 2025. AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed In July 2025, clashes between the Druze religious ...

For more than 50 years, Syria was ruled by Hafez Assad and then his son Bashar. During the Arab Spring, rebellion broke out against their rule in 2011 across the country of 23 million people, igniting ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Bashar al-Assad, who was president of Syria from 2000 to 2024. 1994 – Syrian President Hafez Assad’s oldest son and heir apparent, Basel, dies in a car accident.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump met Wednesday with Syria’s interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa, the first such encounter between the two nations’ leaders in 25 years. The meeting ...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — President Donald Trump will meet with Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, the onetime insurgent who last year led the overthrow of the Mideast nation’s longtime autocrat ...

BEIRUT — A lot has happened in just a year on both sides of the Lebanon-Syria border. A lightning offensive by Islamist insurgents in Syria toppled longtime autocrat Bashar Assad and brought a new ...

A few years ago, a high-ranking U.S. intelligence official was asked what he most wanted to know about Bashar Assad, the Syrian leader. “Whether he’s Michael or Fredo,” he replied. “Whether Syria’s ...