An Israeli strike targeted an air defense installation near Syria’s Mediterranean Latakia port, Syrian security sources said on Monday.

The Turkey-based Syrian opposition said on Monday that Turkey was participating in rescuing detainees from Syrian prisons, including the notorious Saydnaya prison.

Sixty-one years of Baath Party rule in Syria collapsed on Sunday when the capital Damascus fell out of the hands of regime control. The Arab Socialist Baath Party had come to power in Syria in 1963, in a coup. In 1970, Hafez al-Assad – the father of Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s newly deposed...

Syrian state television on Sunday aired a video statement by a group of men announcing the ouster of longtime President Bashar al-Assad and the release of all prisoners from jail. The video came after anti-regime armed groups early Sunday took control of the capital Damascus, bringing the...