This narrative, and the fear of Sunni extremist groups such as the Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra, kept many Alawites ...

Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez, ruled Syria for more than half a century but how did one family achieve and maintain ...

The swift and unexpected fall of the Syrian capital, Damascus, to Sunni opposition forces marks a pivotal moment in the ...

The Baath party, once a powerful symbol of Arab nationalism, has become a fading relic of authoritarian rule in the Middle ...

The new Syrian flag, with its green instead of red stripe, and three red stars instead of two green, is commonplace on shop ...

Assad's ouster, there are questions about the fate of the Syrian Democratic Forces, the U.S.-backed Kurdish coalition that ...

His fiance is Sunni and before Assad fled, her family all loved him ... When I ask her name, she asks if I think Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, Syria's new leader who now goes by his real name, Ahmed ...

Fourteen members of the Syrian police have been killed in an “ambush” by forces loyal to the ousted regime of Bashar al-Assad. The officers died in the Tartus countryside in the west of the country, ...

In the days since former President Bashar al-Assad's fall, Syrians have begun the anguished search for family members who vanished under the dictator's regime.

Fighters funded and trained by America and Britain tell The Telegraph they had advance warning regime would be overthrown ...

Assad said that “at no time during the events that have taken place in Syria” had he considered leaving the country ...