The Syrian asks "Should I be sad about the destruction of my country's air, sea and land military bases by Israel?" A bitter question, especially since these bases were used only to kill the Syrian people. Airports from which Syrian and Russian warplanes took off, flew and bombed, chemical...

A war monitor said Tuesday that Israel had “destroyed the most important military sites in Syria” with a flurry of airstrikes since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad’s government. Israel, which borders Syria, sent troops into a buffer zone east of the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights...

Germany, France, Austria and several Nordic countries said Monday they would freeze all pending asylum requests from Syrians, a day after the ouster of president Bashar al-Assad. While Berlin and other governments said they were watching the fast-moving developments in the war-ravaged...

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...