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Tanzania, Jan. 14 -- Rwandan President Paul Kagame has criticised the international community for looking away from the real problem causing the war in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. In [...]

Several towns that fell to armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been recaptured by government forces, according to the Congolese army. The Armed Forces [...]

Despite assurances from the rebels-turned-leaders, members of some religious groups worry what life will be like for them in a post-Assad Syria. As Western diplomats explore establishing ties with the [...]

Israels military says it has carried out new airstrikes in Yemen against what it said were Houthi rebel targets. Its statement Friday said fighter jets struck on the western coast [...]

Karen State, Myanmar - Thaw Hti was a tiny speck amid a march of hundreds of thousands that snaked its way through the streets of Yangon in 2021, demanding a [...]

Byline: Ismaeel Naar The two Mideast powerhouses have been trying to block the rise of Islamist groups in the region for two decades. The rebel takeover in Damascus will test [...]

M23 rebel fighters in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have taken control of a strategic town in the east of the Central African country, local politicians say, adding [...]

Byline: Kareem Fahim; Zakaria Zakaria KHIRBET AL-HAMMAM, Syria -- Violence came roaring into this village in western Syria last week, when war was supposed to have receded. Munitions fired by [...]

Byline: Staff and agencies Israel's defence minister has confirmed that the IDF assassinated former Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran earlier this year, and warned that the military would [...]

Byline: By, Daniel Orme Arne Slot believes there is more outside noise involving Trent Alexander-Arnold compared to Liverpool's two other contract rebels. The Liverpool defender has just six months remaining [...]

Byline: Petra Stock Rebel Wilson has married wife, Ramona Agruma, for the second time in Sydney and this time it was legal. Wilson, the Australian actor and director, revealed the [...]

Byline: Daniel Hardaker and Jotam Confino THE director-general of the World Health Organisation was caught in a wave of Israeli air strikes on Yemen yesterday. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he [...]

Byline: Adam Rasgon and Ephrat Livni As the fighters who ousted Bashar al-Assad set out to assert control over the country, they pursued former government forces loyal to the Assad [...]

Byline: By, David Lynch PA Political Correspondent & Will Twigger The wife of deposed Syrian leader Bashar Assad is severely ill with leukaemia and has been given a 50/50 chance [...]

Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa has reached an agreement with rebel factions to come together as one force under the Defence Ministry, according to the new Syrian general administration. [...]

Byline: Bethan McKernan in the Aleppo countryside Abu Obeida, a commander of the Northern Storm Brigade, left his mud-camouflaged Toyota running as he got out to inspect a dirt road [...]

Ministers from Jordan and Qatar were among the first high-ranking Arab diplomats to meet with the leader of the rebel coalition that toppled the Syrian regime. Top Arab diplomats visited [...]

Byline: Editorial Diplomacy is often known as the art of making the impossible possible. If so, Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syria's de facto leader, has proved a master of persuasion and compromise. [...]

Byline: Adrian Blomfield WHEN his Russian bosses and the mercenaries protecting them finally left, Homam Kasouha walked into the plant's head office and did something he had yearned to do [...]

Byline: Iona Cleave and Chris Jewers THE US is scrapping the $10million bounty on Syrian rebel leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani's head after he promised to help oppose terrorism. Barbara Leaf, [...]

Myanmar has been consumed by civil war since February, 2021, when a military junta overthrew the country’s semi-democratic government in a coup, When rebel fighters inhttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/topics/syria/ stunned the world with a rapid advance that defied all expectations, first breaking a years-long stalemate and thenhttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-syrian-rebel-assault-widens-as-assad-races-to-defend-homs-damascus/, people in Myanmar were paying particular attention – [...]

Byline: Adrian Blomfield in Palmyra THE United States prepared a rebel force to join the offensive that overthrew the regime of Bashar al-Assad, fighters have claimed. Three weeks before Assad [...]

Byline: Hassan Hassan The fall of the Assad regime in Syria marks the end of Iran's long-feared ' Shia crescent ' and the rise of Turkey's 'full moon', reshaping the [...]

Byline: Raja Abdulrahim and Ivor Prickett For The New York Times On the second floor of the Shababeek cafe, overlooking the clock tower square in the city of Idlib, the [...]

On the second floor of the Shababeek cafe, overlooking the clock tower square in the city of Idlib, the side reserved for men was empty recently except for two young [...]

Byline: Guardian staff and agencies Antony Blinken said the US had made 'direct contact' with Syria's victorious Hayat Tahrir al-Sham rebels as western and Arab states along with Turkey jointly [...]

Byline: Oliver Holmes The United Nations envoy to Syria has told Islamist militants who toppled Bashar al-Assad that they need to oversee a 'credible and inclusive' transition, as world powers [...]

The UK foreign secretary David Lammy has said the government has opened 'diplomatic contact' with the Syrian rebels who ousted Bashar al-Assad's regime last weekend. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) is [...]

Byline: Prashant Tamta One of the images showed Assad showed him flexing his bicep in a speedo. Days after Syrian rebels toppled President Bashar al-Assad's government in the country, several [...]

The skies were quiet the other night in the northwestern town of Tel Rifaat, Syria, and relief was palpable among fighters and civilians who have lived for years under the […]

The Islamist rebels who ousted Syria's dictator ran a pragmatic and disciplined administration in the territory they controlled. They also jailed their critics. Every fall, when farmers across the rolling, […]

The Government is in diplomatic contact with the rebel group that toppled the Assad regime. It comes after the US said on Saturday night that it had also made direct […]

The US has had direct talks with the rebel group that took power in Syria, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Saturday in Jordan, as he wrapped up a [...]

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said American officials have been in direct contact with the Syrian rebel group that spearheaded the overthrow of President Bashar Assads government, but it is [...]

Byline: Claire Parker; Susannah George CAIRO -- The scenes that emerged from Syria this week recalled some of the headiest days of the Arab Spring. Rebels had toppled a dictator [...]

Byline: Abbie Cheeseman; John Hudson; Missy Ryan; Michael Birnbaum An American citizen jailed in Syria was handed to the U.S. government and taken to Jordan on Friday, U.S. and Syrian [...]

Byline: Shivam Verma The man, originally from Surrey, gained attention for his social media campaigns and unusual propaganda videos A British man, Lucas Kinney, has reportedly become a significant figure [...]

Byline: Ben Hubbard and Nicole Tung Red carpets still run down the airy hallways of the mountaintop presidential palace in the Syrian capital, Damascus. Large chandeliers hang in ornate reception [...]

Byline: Ellen Nakashima The rebel group that now runs Syria's government offered on Thursday to 'cooperate directly' with the United States to search for missing American journalist Austin Tice, a [...]

Byline: Dan Sabbagh and Eleni Courea Shamima Begum and the other 65 Islamic State-linked Britons detained in prisons and camps in north-east Syria face an uncertain future as Turkish-backed rebel [...]

The Times 'Even apart from Islamist forces, the range of groups vying for territory in Syria is dizzying. Militant rebel group HTS had its stronghold in the north-west. In the [...]

Byline: Loveday Morris; Abbie Cheeseman; Suzan Haidamous DAMASCUS, Syria -- After sweeping into this capital city with ease, exposing the hollowness of the Assad regime after more than half a [...]

Byline: Muhammad Haj Kadour and Raja Abdulrahim Rebel fighters who took control of Aleppo about two weeks ago have promised security and continuity. Prices have skyrocketed, but residents express some [...]

Byline: By, Anders Anglesey Russian despot Vladimir Putin has boasted his new ballistic Oreshnik missile would make nuclear weapons redundant. The Russian President bragged about the weapon's speed, which is [...]

Byline: By, Chiara Fiorillo A member of Assad's infamous Tiger Forces who fed prisoners to his pet lion has reportedly been publicly executed by Syrian rebels. Talal Dakkak is said [...]