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

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 ...

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 ...

Syrian rebels—long thought to have lost their fight against Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s regime—shocked the world on December 1 after overrunning Syria’s second city, Aleppo, amid a ...

Ankara stood firmly against Bashar al-Assad for 13 years, supporting a range of opposition groups while hosting nearly 4 million Syrian refugees. Over time, ...

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. ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

We’ll then travel onto Ankara, ... Syrian rebels have set fire to the tomb of ex-President Bashar al-Assad's father, Hafez al-Assad, who ruled the country for 29 years until his death in 2000 ...