Israel will step up airstrikes on Syrian stores of advanced weaponry, Israeli officials said yesterday, and keep a 'limited' troop presence on the ground, hoping to head off any threat that could emerge in the fallout of president Bashar al-Assad's overthrow

Police probe him for insurrection over his ill-fated declaration of martial law

Crowds cheered in the streets of Damascus, where celebratory gunfire erupted as five decades of brutal Baath party rule came crashing to a dramatic end with Assad's flight from the capital on Sunday.

She was released from prison on Wednesday for three weeks on medical grounds, after undergoing bone surgery

However, Biden cautioned that hardline Islamist groups within the victorious rebel alliance will face scrutiny

The new benchmark affirmed by the Copernicus Climate Change Service caps a year in which countries rich and poor were hammered by disasters that scientists have linked to humanity's role in Earth's rapid warming.

All the victims were aged over 60, the rights group said.

In such a case, power would be handed to the prime minister on an interim basis, until elections could be held

The Syrian strongman had for nearly 14 years held off an uprising that many believed had been exhausted. But his downfall followed a series of battlefield convulsions for other allies of Iran

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday ordered Israeli military to "seize" a UN-patrolled buffer zone between Israeli- and Syria-controlled Golan Heights.

Abu Mohammed al-Golani, the militant leader whose stunning insurgency toppled Syria’s president Bashar Assad, has spent years working to remake his public image, renouncing longtime ties to al-Qaeda and depicting himself as a champion of pluralism and tolerance.

Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad yesterday fled Syria as Islamist-led rebels swept into Damascus, triggering celebrations across the country and beyond at the end of his “oppressive” rule.

Taiwan’s defence ministry said yesterday that China had nearly doubled the number of its warships operating around the island in the previous 24 hours, ahead of what security sources expect will be a new round of war games.

Bewildered and elated prisoners poured out of Syrian jails yesterday, shouting with joy as they emerged from one of the world’s most notorious detention systems and walked to freedom following the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s government.

US President-elect Donald Trump yesterday called for an immediate ceasefire and negotiations between Ukraine and Russia to end “the madness”, prompting President Volodymr Zelensky to say that there could be no peace without guarantees.

South Korea’s leadership crisis deepened yesterday as prosecutors named President Yoon Suk Yeol as a subject of a criminal investigation over last week’s martial law attempt, a media report said, and his former defence minister was arrested.

Syria’s capital woke up yesterday to chanting, cheering and gunfire in celebration of the fall of president Bashar al-Assad, after rebels said they entered the city and toppled the longtime ruler.

Celebrations across Syria as rebels oust Assad; president ‘flees country’; nations urge stability

As the commander of al Qaeda's franchise in the Syrian civil war, Abu Mohammed al-Golani was a shadowy figure who kept out of the public eye, even when his group became the most powerful faction fighting President Bashar al-Assad

Groups of Syrians strolled through the palaces of President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday following his ouster, wandering from room to room, posing for photographs, and with some taking items of furniture or ornaments..Video obtained by Reuters showed people entering the Al-Rawda Presidential