The overthrow followed a 13-year civil war, which started after Assad ... bases there before the civil war. Russian President Vladimir Putin used his country's presence in Syria, and support ...

After Syria's pro-democracy protests in 2011 ... south of Damascus, from Syria, before annexing it in 1981. The annexation is not recognised by the UN and many other countries.

After Syria's pro-democracy protests in 2011 were met with force ... In the 1967 Six-Day War, Israel seized the Golan Heights, about 60km (40 miles) south of Damascus, from Syria, before annexing it ...

The Assad regime suddenly and dramatically fell Sunday after 13 years of brutal war. Here's a brief background.

Russia's warships have been missing from its base in Syria in the days after rebel forces ousted the country's longtime dictator ... The rebels quickly captured several key cities before taking ...

Iraq and Libya before Syria are now, no democracies and even too chaotic to speak of freedom and human rights, while life at its very subsistence is the existential realities of these countries ...

But he yielded to a request by Russia to evacuate after a ... for 24 years. Before that, his father, Hafez Assad, was president for nearly three decades. The Assad family ruled Syria with an ...