Analysts say the rebels are using a vacuum left by a weakened Hezbollah to advance in Syria. “The rebels see an opportunity to test the front lines with Hezbollah weakened, a pressured Iran and ...

It marks a sharp about-face after decades of close relations between the Assad family and Iran's rulers. In the 1980s under Bashar al-Assad's father Hafez, Syria ... he said in a live interview ...

Hundreds of fighters from Iran-backed Iraqi militias crossed into Syria overnight to help the government fight rebels who seized Aleppo last week, Syrian and Iraqi sources said on Monday ...

Iran's top diplomat Abbas Araghchi said Friday that the lightning rebel offensive in Syria against its ally President Bashar al-Assad posed a threat to the whole Middle East. "If Syria becomes a ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Since the early stages of Syria's bloody civil war that began in 2011, Iran has supported Syria's strongman president, Bashar Assad.