The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the ...

Hezbollah, a powerful Iran-backed militia, has long been the country’s dominant political force and has formed part of the ...

Since the fall of longtime ruler Assad in December, Syria's authorities have dissolved the former military and security ...

Since Bashar al-Assad fled the country and Ahmad al-Sharaa arrived in Damascus, eventually being declared president, every speech and interview he has given, whether televised or in print, reflects a ...

"At least under the former dictator, Bashar al-Assad," he says ... from Iran - a country which sponsored both the Assad regime and Hezbollah. IBTISSAM HUMHOM: (Speaking Arabic).

Asharq Al Awsat Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa said in an interview released Monday that "thousands" of people were joining the country's new army following the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad ...

Pro-Iranian militias in Iraq, collectively part of the Hashd al Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Units), face increasing calls to ...

Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria. “Hezbollah still has legitimacy,” Ziad Majed, a Lebanese political researcher, told Al Jazeera. “It will have to accept to be a strong – and it will be ...

A worker tears down the pictures of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, his father Hafez al-Assad, the late Hezbollah leader Sayyed Nasrallah and Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei at a gas station in Nubl, a ...