For more than a decade, Mr. al-Assad remained in power, employing vicious means to do so while enjoying an obscene amount of ...

After the ouster of Syria's longtime leader Bashar al-Assad last month, Israel's military has taken up a new post in the demilitarized buffer zone created in Syria after the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.

Syria has been grappling with a brutal and prolonged crisis since 2011, commonly referred to by media and political analysts as the Syrian Civil War. It is widely regarded as an offshoot of the Arab ...

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The summer home of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad was once off-limits to ordinary Syrians. Now people are lining up to visit ...

Aid planes and foreign diplomatic delegations had already been landing in Syria, and domestic flights had also resumed. A flight from Damascus to second city Aleppo on December 18 was the first.

She fled Sudan with her husband and six children early last year in search of safety and is now in Libya. Like all the Sudanese women who the BBC spoke to about their experiences of being ...

Davos: Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani met on Tuesday with Head of the Government of National Unity of the State of Libya HE ...

A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has gone into effect. Three women were returned to Israel after more than a year in captivity, and families of 90 Palestinians celebrated the release of prisoners.

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Like many other militias in western Libya, the SDF has been implicated in atrocities in the civil war that followed the overthrow and killing of longtime Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi in 2011.