Richard Spencer

He can count on support from Russia and Iran, but Turkey has hardened its view against the regime

Bo Guagua has now given his family’s side of the story — 12 years after his mother was jailed for life for the death of the British businessman Neil Heywood

The group launched a surprise offensive and seized Aleppo after years of Assad regime control

Binyamin Netanyahu faces backlash but says the attacks were vital for his country’s security and rules out a march on Damascus

Damascus is quiet and hopeful, spared heavy fighting in the rapid conquest. What emerges from the calm will reshape the entire Middle East

Assad’s regime destroyed the suburb of Baba Amr in retribution and now the dictator has fallen, people are returning to find a city still shattered by war

The rebel leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the former jihadist group, has promised that no one need fear for their future — unless they have blood on their hands

Returning to after 12 years to find a changed country brings back memories of the early days of the war against Assad

Thousands died in Syria’s gas assaults in 2013, 2017 and 2018. Workers who built stockpiles of sarin precursor agents thought Israel was the target, not their fellow citizens

Maher al-Assad, one of the deposed president’s closest lieutenants, left behind mansions and a network of tunnels when he fled Syria