The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the heir chose the status quo and consolidated his power by perpetuating his ...

A lawyer for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally gunning down U.S. health insurance executive Brian Thompson in ...

The regime’s collapse should also dispel at last the persistent myth that the Arab Spring was a mirage. The first wave of uprisings, which lasted from 2010 to 2012 and saw hundreds of thousands of ...

Praising Türkiye’s regional role, Lebanon’s Future Movement secretary-general says: ‘Türkiye has never pursued a divisive ...

For half a century, Lebanon lived under the long rule of the two Assads in Syria. Damascus held Lebanon’s fate in its hands, ...

The ousting of Bashar Assad in December after 54 years of family rule in Syria marked the fall of a government long accused ...

The rebel chief who led the overthrow of the longtime dictator Bashar al-Assad has been declared the head of government for a transitional period. By Euan Ward Reporting from Beirut, Lebanon Ahmed ...

Battered by conflict, in November, it signed a cease-fire agreement with Israel and pulled its forces from Lebanon’s south—Hezbollah’s traditional domain. Not long after, Bashar al-Assad’s regime fell ...

Lebanon plans to go to the International Monetary ... Iran has been left reeling, and Israel and the US have been empowered. In Syria, Bashar al-Assad was toppled. Hezbollah has been sidelined ...

A former minister under ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has turned himself in ... killings in Tripoli in 1986 when he was in charge of security in the northern Lebanon port city. Also in 2012, ...

As Alma Salem crossed the border from Lebanon into Syria she asked the driver to pull over. She fled the country 13 years ago when Bashar al-Assad's authoritarian government opposed pro ...