Washington torched the region and watched it burn through regime changes, Arab Spring, civil wars, and the regeneration of ...

The sea change toward tenuous hope in Syria over the last two weeks has been tempered with a grim accounting of the last 14 years of war and a half a century of authoritarian rule under the Assad ...

The rapid fall of Syria’s autocratic ruler, Bashar al-Assad, this past weekend was one of the most consequential developments ...

By lowering the threshold for direct strikes, the tit for tat has boosted the odds that the two most powerful states in the ...

A few hours after the Assad regime was overthrown in Syria, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) launched airstrikes on targets ...

In most capitals across the Middle East, the news of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s fall sparked immense anxiety. Ankara ...

Retired diplomat Chas Freeman and writer Pascal Lottaz discuss what happens now that Damascus is in the hands of Hayat Tahrir ...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is heading back to the Middle East as the Biden administration tries to shape the unfolding ...

The factions spill across current borders, which date from the Ottomans' post-WWI collapse (with a few later 20th-century rearrangements). For example, Turkey sees Syrian Kurds as allies of the ...

The collapse of the regime of Bashar al-Assad not only upends decades of Assad family rule in Syria, it also promises to ...

The removal of Bashar al-Assad from the presidency of Syria has left a lot of unanswered questions in the Middle East, but ...

Follow NBC News for live updates of the latest coverage from Syria where rebels led by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham has ousted ...