Assad, who has ruled the country with an iron fist for 24 years, boarded a plane and left Damascus for parts unknown, two senior army officers told Reuters. A rebel fighter gestures in Homs ...

U.S. President Donald Trump met Wednesday with Syria’s interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa, the first such encounter between the two nations’ leaders in 25 years.

The Assad regime’s brutal half-century-long grip on Syria has come to an end, in a stunning defeat by opposition insurgents who seized control of Damascus on Sunday after more than 13 years of ...

hours after a stunning rebel advance seized control of Damascus and ended his family’s 50 years of iron rule. Thousands of Syrians poured into streets echoing with celebratory gunfire and waved ...

nearly a week after insurgents swept into Damascus, ousting the Assad-led state that had ruled the country for a half-century with an iron grip. It came as U.S. Secretary of State Antony J.

Dramatic news today in Syria, where the capital, Damascus, has fallen to opposition ... apparently ending half a century of his family's iron rule. NPR's Jane Arraf joins us from the Kurdistan ...

At Umayyad Square in central Damascus, tens of thousands of people ... For half a century, the Assad family had ruled over Syria with an iron fist, with long-documented reports of mass ...