ISTANBUL/DAMASCUS, Dec 9 (Reuters) - After 13 years of civil war, Syria's opposition ... five decades of Assad family rule. The lightning advance relied on an almost perfect alignment of stars ...

In a statement from exile in Moscow, Assad claimed he did not want to leave Syria but was evacuated by Russia after he left Damascus for his family's heartland near the coast. Special ...

This description remains relevant after the fall of the Assad regime, as Syria grapples with fragmentation and competing global and regional ambitions. The country’s fractured nature ...

At 13,000 pounds to the dollar (see chart 1), a quick trip to the market requires bags full of banknotes. Economic mismanagement was a defining feature of the Assad regime, which ruled Syria for ...