Syria defies Russia in bid to keep Assad in power even as the two allies prepare an offensive to retake Aleppo. Putin Backs Assad, Says Russian Warplanes Could Redeploy to Syria in Hours Russian ...

Family friend, sources in Russia and Syria, and leaked data help give rare insight into life of dictator’s reclusive household ...

Iraq's top security official met with embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday, to "put Assad in the picture of the latest developments in Iraq," the Syrian state news agency SANA ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Bashar al-Assad, who was president of Syria from 2000 to 2024. 1994 – Syrian President Hafez Assad’s oldest son and heir apparent, Basel, dies in a car accident.

Intercepted communications show former senior figures, including Bashar al-Assad’s billionaire cousin Rami Makhlouf, are ...

After the change in Syria’s political leadership, Damascus and Baghdad have kept diplomatic channels open between them, although the latter has not removed Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa from ...

Iraq uses drones and advanced surveillance systems as part of efforts to tighten security along its borders, particularly ...

One of the largest factories in Lebanon making the highly addictive amphetamine captagon has been discovered and destroyed as part of rare security cooperation between intelligence agencies in Iraq ...

Iraq was originally so trusting when a New York Times report accused Iran of flying military equipment through Iraq to aid Bashar al-Assad's government forces, but now it looks like they're a bit more ...

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reported that one year after the fall of the regime of longtime Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in Syria, the large-scale manufacturing of Captagon ...