Assad’s government in December 2024 created new possibilities to ensure accountability for years of atrocity crimes and the ...

Mr. Helou is secretary general of the Lebanese National Bloc, a secular and reformist political party. I hadn’t been to Syria in 14 years. After the fall of President Bashar al-Assad, I couldn ...

The fall of the Assad regime will have a substantial impact on Lebanese politics, highlighting border tensions, refugee ...

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister visits Lebanon on Thursday in the first trip to Beirut by Riyadh's top diplomat in 15 years, ...

On Jan. 1, 2025, several media outlets including Newsweek and The Sun reported on a supposed poison attack on the exiled former president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, who resides in Russia ...

Saudi Arabia's top diplomat, on his country's first high-level visit to Beirut after years of strained ties, said Thursday ...

Beirut. It's 18 degrees Celsius ... (Omar Haj Kadour / AFP via Getty Images) One can now enter Bashar al-Assad's death camp only through Lebanon. I arrived in the country accompanied by officers ...

Bashar al-Assad and his family have fled to Russia and are reportedly staying in Moscow, after rebels seized control of Syria. The Kremlin stressed at the time that it was Putin's personal ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron called on Israel on Friday to accelerate its troop withdrawal from ...

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BEIRUT - Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister ... becoming the first head of government to visit Syria's capital since the fall of Bashar al-Assad. The visit will also be the first by a Lebanese ...