In Lebanon, many saw the election on Thursday of Gen. Joseph Aoun, the commander of the Lebanese military, as a crucial step ...

The parliament elected army chief Joseph Aoun head of state, filling the vacant presidency with a general who has U.S. support and showing the weakened sway of the Iran-backed Hezbollah group after ...

Israel is celebrating the fall of Assad because it breaks the noose that Iran had been patiently tightening around Israel’s ...

Bashar al-Assad was never expected to rule Syria ... which damaged Iran-backed Hezbollah and Russia, distracting them from the threat in Syria. But it is also due to years of economic ...

A new type of Syrian refugee is fleeing across the border into Lebanon: those who once supported dictator Bashar Al-Assad.

It was reported that the drug reached Hamas and Hezbollah via Syria. Bashar al-Assad's brother, Maher al-Assad, was responsible for overseeing Captagon production. With the Assad family now in ...

From Donald Trump being shot at a campaign rally to Bashar al-Assad's shock overthrow, Newsweek writers on the moment of 2024: plus have your say. "I believe there will be violent fighting ...

Syria was the dominant power in Lebanon for three decades under the Assad family, with President Hafez al-Assad intervening ...

Hezbollah head Naim Qassem said on Saturday that the Lebanese armed group had lost its supply route through Syria, in his first comments since the toppling of President Bashar al-Assad nearly a ...

Syria's new ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa and Lebanon's prime minister vowed on Saturday to build lasting ties after the fall of ...

"At least under the former dictator, Bashar al-Assad," he says ... They're mostly Syrian fighters with the Iran-backed group Hezbollah, who fought alongside Syria's army against the rebel ...