Bashar al-Assad ruled Syria as president from July 2000-December 2024. His father, Hafez al-Assad, ruled Syria from 1970-2000. Roughly 4 million Syrians have fled to neighboring countries, according ...

The end of the Khadafy regime in Libya has focused new attention on the rebels in Syria–as has last week’s belated call by President Obama for the ouster of Bashar al-Assad. But it will take a more ...

The latest fighting in Syria has seen an uptick in the alleged use of chemical weapons by the regime, including on the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta. The fresh violence has sparked wide concern ...

Israel is not merely entering southern Syria. It is testing how far it can redraw the map before the world decides that ...

Here is some background information about the ongoing civil war in Syria. In the first five years of the war, which began in 2011, an estimated 400,000 Syrians were killed, according to the UN Envoy ...