Despite the rhetoric about a global war against Islamist terrorism, the US has long utilised reactionary Islamist groups in ...

Al Jazeera speaks to Syrian opposition fighters who came back to liberate their homes and pursue their dreams.

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At first sight, therefore, 2024 has amplified a growing sense that the multilateral order which emerged from the second world ...

The Middle Eastern country had been ruled by outside powers and dictators for centuries before its revolution was realized.

The fall of the Assad regime in Syria has led to the freeing of tens of thousands of prisoners from the country’s brutal and ...

Ukraine, like the United States, is a volunteer society, and immediately after the war, groups sprang up around the country ...

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

President Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia on December 8, leaving behind many of his collaborators, some of whom sought refuge in neighbouring countries. According to two sources, the ousted president, ...

Russian forces sustained their highest single-day casualty count since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, with 2,200 ...

How the collapse of the Syrian government shifts power dynamics in the Middle East, including Russian influence ...

The Syrian regime’s collapse came more quickly than the rebels had dreamed — the circumstances were both serendipitous and ...