Iranian-backed militias such as Hezbollah have been fighting on the Assad side since at least 2012. Russia threw its weight behind Assad from 2015, as Vladimir Putin saw a chance to reassert ...

President Trump signed an executive order on Monday rescinding most U.S. sanctions imposed on Syria since the 1970s, a major ...

Assad is a longtime ally of Putin, and the two have shared a friendly relationship for decades.He and his family will likely be given luxurious quarters by the Russian government. Former Ukrainian ...

Washington had considered intervening on the side of the insurgents, but mostly stayed on the sidelines. Since 2014, U.S. troops have been operating in northern Syria, but their mission has been ...

Who’s on Assad’s side? The Assad family, which has run Syria since a 1970 coup, is Alawite, ... Not surprisingly, the U.S. and the European Union view Assad as an enemy.

The summer home of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad was once off-limits to ordinary Syrians. Now people are lining up to visit and wandering around the rooms — which are empty after being looted.

Smith wrote and produced the 2015 investigation Obama at War — about the administration’s struggle to deal with ISIS and the civil war in Syria — and was a senior producer on the 2011 film ...

As hundreds of thousands of refugees flee Syria for Europe, the regime of President Bashar al-Assad has been coming down hard on those who have stayed behind, particularly people viewed as ...