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One suspect, Mehdi Nemmouche, is serving a life sentence for a 2019 attack on a Jewish museum in Brussels.

Two months after the fall of Assad’s regime, Whitehall’s decision to pause asylum applications from Syrians has left more than 6,600 cases stuck on hold in the UK

Austin Tice, a former U.S. Marine turned journalist, vanished in 2012 while covering Syria’s civil war.

Appointment of former leader of group that led operation to topple Assad comes amid other political changes

Aleksandr Lukashenko has supported and continues to support Bashar al-Assad, the former president of Syria. However, it seems that he also has supported Assad’s opponents.

Recently deposed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was popular among the Western ultra-right for his anti-Semitic views, Holocaust denial, and ruthless persecution of his country’s Muslim population.

In May, Syria’s presidency announced that the then-first lady of the Middle Eastern country had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia - an aggressive cancer of the bone marrow and the blood.

The US has killed an Islamic State leader and a second operative in an airstrike on Syria.

Asylum seekers say they are in limbo and charities have expressed ‘deep concern’ as claims paused after Assad regime’s fall

Syrian rebels seized control of Damascus in an offensive that toppled the iron-fisted ‘tyrant’ President Bashar al-Assad and took the world by surprise.

The UK government could remove Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham from the list of banned terrorist groups after the rebels led the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad in Syria.

Asma Akhras, the future wife of Bashar al-Assad, had a privileged childhood in a terraced house in Acton, west London.

UK prime minister calls for civilians in Syria to be protected after rebel forces take control of Damascus

The ousted president rose to power promising change from his father but proved equally repressive.

Syrian rebels have toppled Bashar al-Assad, ending his family’s 54-year authoritarian rule after nearly 14 years of war - and the leader is now in Moscow with family

Syrian rebels say Syria is free of Assad

Rebel insurgents have reached the suburbs of the Syrian capital, Damascus - as the Syrian government’s grip on power comes under threat.

Syria’s state media said projectiles from insurgents landed in the student accommodation at Aleppo’s university, killing four people.

Since the start of 2024, a total of 3,344 foreign nationals who went to fight in Ukraine have received Russian citizenship, according to the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Airstrikes launched against suspected Kurdish militant targets after PKK blamed for Tusaş attack

Despite international sanctions, Russia continues to receive petrodollars, mainly due to a "shadow fleet" that transports Russian oil to buyers who are willing to pay above the $60 per barrel cap set by the G7+ Coalition.

The Syrian army is getting its hands on new-looking EU-branded trucks. An undercover investigation found evidence of a secretive supply chain routing vehicles from Europe to Syria through neighboring countries such as Jordan and Lebanon.