Syrian President Bashar Assad was ousted from power early on Sunday in a stunning bloodless coup by Islamist rebels who took control of Damascus, the Syrian capital after a 13-year civil war that has ...

Syria's 14-year civil war has undergone yet another rapid series of shifts, with violence sweeping the west coast homeland of deposed President Bashar al-Assad's minority Alawite Muslim sect and the ...

In December, rebel leader Ahmed al-Shaara proclaimed a new and free Syria. The former jihadist recently sat down with 60 ...

Syria civil war: Turkey, which allegedly played a major role in a purported plan by the United States and Israel to orchestrate the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has now reportedly drawn ...

• Syrians are cheering the fall of longtime dictator Bashar al-Assad, as a rebel-linked caretaker prime minister was appointed to oversee the transition of power. Some families are desperately ...

In the first elections since the Assad regime was ousted, there was no popular vote and women and minorities won few seats.

On Dec. 8, after nearly 54 years in power and 13 years of war, the Syrian civil war came to an end. And with it, the fall of the Assad family’s rule. For many Syrian students who call the University ...

Fleeing a civil war, Syria's refugees have nearly doubled in the past year. — -- The number of Syrians fleeing their war-torn homeland for neighboring countries has passed the 4 million mark, ...