Al-Monitor's top articles of 2024 delivered exclusive reporting on the Middle East's tumultuous year. From Assad's fall in ...

Rebel forces pressing a lightning offensive in Syria aim to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad’s rule, their Islamist leader said in an interview published on December 6. In little over a week ...

Holding new elections in Syria could take up to four years, rebel leader Ahmed al-Sharaa has said in a broadcast interview.

Assad, Syria’s former dictator’s cousin, suggests that federalism is the best option for the country but the new authority in ...

Sharaa, the leader of the rebels who ousted the Bashar al-Assad regime, also plans to dissolve the group that took control of ...

Holding elections in Syria could take up to four years, Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa said in an interview with Al ...

Syria's new authorities announced on Tuesday that the military chief of the Islamist group that spearheaded the offensive ...

Sharaa, Syria’s de facto leader, envisions a four-year timeline for elections and a three-year plan to draft a new constitution, signalling a transformative phase for the war-torn nation. As Syria ...

Russia is providing sanctuary to Bashar al-Assad, having transported the former ... Russia’s deputy foreign minister told NBC News in an exclusive interview Tuesday.

She was once fawned over for her good looks and sharp mind, but is now seen as an accomplice to her husband’s cruelty. Claudia Cockerell on the fall of Syria’s first lady ...

Ahmed al-Shara stressed diplomacy in an interview but criticized Israel’s advance into Syrian territory. A statement said to be from Bashar al-Assad, the ousted leader, defended his decision to ...

An American freed in Syria on Thursday said he was on a Christian pilgrimage when he crossed into the country on foot seven months ago and was detained by the Bashar al-Assad regime. Travis ...