The toppling of Ankara’s archenemy Bashar al-Assad in Syria may have increased Turkey’s regional influence but it also represents a strategic challenge for Turkish President Recep Tayyip ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Trade between Turkey and Syria has increased by 60 percent since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s ...

Bashar al-Assad came to power in 2000, succeeding his father, Hafez al-Assad, who ruled Syria with an iron grip for nearly three decades. Initially, there were hopes that Bashar would bring reform ...

Turkey and Saudi Arabia are two Sunni powerhouses that have had a complicated and often contentious relationship over the ...

Syrian President Bashar Al Assad has given a negative assessment of efforts to restore ties with Turkey, saying the process had yielded no real progress despite mediation by regional powers, as ...

A defaced portrait of Bashar al-Assad in a ransacked government security facility in Damascus on December 8 ... Araghchi left Damascus for Ankara, where Turkish officials expected to receive a ...

Turkey threatened Tuesday to launch military operations against Kurdish forces in Syria unless they accepted Ankara's conditions for a ... fall of strongman president Bashar al-Assad. ...

Today, with Bashar al-Assad gone, millions of refugees will return to their homes, and Turkey’s influence in Syria has increased, bolstered by its long-standing support for refugees and the ...

After 13 years of civil war, Syria's opposition militias sensed an opportunity to loosen President Bashar al-Assad's grip on power when they communicated to Turkey plans for a major offensive.

Turkey has supported the main rebel group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, that ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, giving Ankara outsize influence in the new political order.

Shiite rituals for Ashoura in Damascus have drastically changed after the fall of Syria's former President Bashar Assad ...

The British-born wife of Syria’s ousted president Bashar al-Assad has reportedly filed for divorce just weeks after ... Ankara-backed rebels played a key role in supporting Sharaa’s ...