After the ouster of Syria's longtime leader Bashar al-Assad last month, Israel's military has taken up a new post in the demilitarized buffer zone created in Syria after the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.

Analysts say the return suggests that Moscow is preparing to evacuate one of its most valuable overseas bases.

Once Syria's most influential minority, Alawites struggle to move on from their association with a hated dictator.

Russia's exit from Syria will disrupt supplies to its forces in Africa. But as Moscow's fortunes in the resource-rich ...

The new authorities in Syria ended an agreement with the Russian company managing the key port of Tartous in the latest sign ...

The Syrian government has canceled the lease agreement that allowed Russia access to the port of Tartus. According to British ...

Russia has lost a naval base after Syria ended an investment contract with Moscow, asserting its authority over the Tartus ...

Syria's interim rulers are trying to form a united national army after the fall of Bashar Assad late last year.

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Here is a look at Arab Spring, anti-government protests that began in Tunisia in December 2010 and spread throughout the Middle East and Africa in 2011. Algeria January 4, 2011 – Protests begin, ...

Syria, a country in Southwest Asia on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, was deeply affected by the Arab Spring protests that swept through many nations in the Middle East and North Africa in ...

Assad’s regime on December 8 has put Syria in the spotlight once again. Following over a decade of conflict, the killing of ...