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 ...

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. ...

Dramatic map shows how Bashar al-Assad's murderous regime has collapsed in just days as Syrian rebels ... though the latter's jihadist origins prevent it from striking a relationship with Ankara.

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.

ANKARA, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Turkey has emerged as one of the most influential power brokers in Syria after rebels toppled Bashar al-Assad last month, ending his family's brutal five-decade rule.

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 ...