In Lebanon, many saw the election on Thursday of Gen. Joseph Aoun, the commander of the Lebanese military, as a crucial step ...

The parliament elected army chief Joseph Aoun head of state, filling the vacant presidency with a general who has U.S. support and showing the weakened sway of the Iran-backed Hezbollah group after ...

In order for Bashar to assume the presidency ... as well as the Tehran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah. Al-Assad gradually managed to win back most of the territory his forces had initially ...

A new type of Syrian refugee is fleeing across the border into Lebanon: those who once supported dictator Bashar Al-Assad.

Syria’s former media chief and top aide to Bashar al-Assad said that Russian President Vladimir Putin may have “tricked” the ...

From Donald Trump being shot at a campaign rally to Bashar al-Assad's shock overthrow, Newsweek writers on the moment of 2024: plus have your say. "I believe there will be violent fighting ...

Hezbollah head Naim Qassem said on Saturday that the Lebanese armed group had lost its supply route through Syria, in his first comments since the toppling of President Bashar al-Assad nearly a ...

Syria was the dominant power in Lebanon for three decades under the Assad family, with President Hafez al-Assad intervening ...

Syria's new ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa and Lebanon's prime minister vowed on Saturday to build lasting ties after the fall of ...

Spain raised its flag at Madrid's Damascus embassy Thursday, in the presence of its top diplomat more than a decade after ...

"At least under the former dictator, Bashar al-Assad," he says ... They're mostly Syrian fighters with the Iran-backed group Hezbollah, who fought alongside Syria's army against the rebel ...