Ruth Michaelson

Syrian insurgents have entered towns just north of the country's third largest city, Homs, sweeping along a highway that eventually leads to the capital, Damascus, in a lightning-fast advance that has shaken the Middle East.

With insurgents closing in on Damscus, questions remain over whether the Assad regime will dig in, and if Hayat Tahrir al-Sham are as moderate as they seem

When Islamist militants swept into her home town of Aleppo little over a week ago, Rama Alhalabi sheltered indoors as fear engulfed her.

Nasma and Haleem Kawas met during the first protests in Aleppo against Bashar al-Assad's rule.

Fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime marks end of a chapter for citizens that began with Arab spring uprising

Nine years after Obama said Assad had to go, he went The toppling of Bashar al-Assad – eye surgeon, dictator, “butcher of Damascus”, Russian

As prisoners were set free from their subterranean jail cells around Damascus, shocked crowds roamed the ousted former president Bashar al-Assad's

When he spoke to lawmakers and in lecture theatres around the world, Mazen al-Hamada's face told the story of brutal torture by Bashar al-Assad's regime.

Turkey tried to stall the HTS rebels’ offensive but has now become Syria’s ‘gateway to the outside world’

As part of the Guardian’s Gaza Voices series this year, Hazem Suleiman told of how the roads he trained on had been destroyed. Now, he’s raising money for other amputees