Bojana Coulibaly, PhD, is a researcher on peace and security in the Great Lakes region of Africa. Leader of the M23 group ...

According to a report by Al Jazeera television, the transitional authority would be headed by Mohamed al-Bashir, who has headed the Salvation Government, a de facto unrecognized quasi-state in ...

The lightning victory of Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham in its stunningly successful offensive to unseat the more than 50-year-old Assad family-led Baathist dictatorship in Syria was highly reminiscent of ...

The fall of President Bashar al-Assad has raised critical questions about the future of Syria and who speaks for its people. One group aiming for that role is Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which ...

Rebel leader Abu Mohammed al Jolani, whose group was central to the lightning offensive that toppled decades of dictatorship in Syria this weekend, has spent years trying to distance himself from ...

The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had left office and departed the country after giving orders there be a peaceful handover of power. In a statement ...

The collapse of Assad's government came after a coalition of opposition forces led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham launched a surprise offensive, seizing control of major cities like Aleppo, Hama ...

A jihadist and an extremist? Or a new face of a modern and tolerant Syria? Abu Mohammed al-Golani, the militant leader whose insurgency toppled President Bashar Assad, has long pursued a political ...

Syrian Prime Minister Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali said on Sunday that he remained in his home and was ready to support continuity of governance, after President Bashar al-Assad fled Damascus as ...

Syrian opposition supporters interrupted Al Jazeera reporter Zeina Khodr with cheers of victory during her live report on the Lebanon-Syria border.

On Dec. 8, Syrian rebels stunned the world by seizing Damascus and toppling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, more than 13 years into the country’s brutal war. The offensive by the Islamist ...

Syria’s iron-fisted leader Bashar al-Assad is the second generation of an autocratic family dynasty that held power for more than five decades and his disappearance amid a lightning rebel ...