Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: Just weeks ago, Farhan al-Khouli was manning a military outpost in Idlib, northern Syria, for Bashar al-Assad's army. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Farhan al-Khouli, Syrian military conscript who deserted his post on the first day of the rebel offensive, walks at a horse stable ...

Bashar al-Assad was the 19th president of Syria, entering office in 2000 succeeding his father Hafez al-Assad as the country's leader and as head of the Ba'ath Party. He was ousted in December 2024 by ...

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AMMAN/BEIRUT: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad flew out of Damascus for an unknown destination on Sunday (Dec 8), two senior army officers told Reuters, as rebels said they had entered the capital ...

Syria's government appears to have fallen after opposition fighters said they had entered Damascus following a stunning advance, and a Syrian opposition war monitor reported that President Bashar ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – Despite the Obama administration’s predictions that the Syrian government’s days are numbered, recent U.S. intelligence reports suggest President Bashar Assad commands a formidable ...

AMMAN, April 6 (Reuters) - Senior Syrian army ranks are packed with loyal members of President Bashar al-Assad's Alawite minority, reducing any prospect of military pressure on him to stand aside if ...

Syria’s deposed president Bashar al-Assad fled to Moscow on Sunday, according to Russian state news, after his regime crumbled under the weight of the armed Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. Iran’s ...

DAMASCUS/AMMAN/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Twenty-three-year-old Syrian military conscript Farhan al-Khouli was badly paid and demoralized. His army outpost in scrubland near the rebel-held city of Idlib ...