Monday, 9 December, 2024 , 00:09 AFP — President Bashar al-Assad fled Syria as Islamist-led rebels swept into Damascus Sunday, triggering celebrations across the country and beyond at the end of his oppressive rule.

Sunday, 8 December, 2024 , 22:06 AFP — Syria's president Bashar al-Assad fled Syria as Islamist-led rebels swept into Damascus Sunday, triggering celebrations across the country and beyond at the end of his oppressive rule.

Sunday, 8 December, 2024 , 20:55 AFP — At least 26 combattants were killed Sunday as Turkish-backed Syrian fighters launched an offensive on the northern Manbij area, days after seizing a Kurdish-held enclave.

Sunday, 8 December, 2024 , 20:20 AFP — With the fall of President Bashar al-Assad in neighbouring Syria, Turkey has the chance to turn the overthrow of a historic adversary into greater regional clout, experts say.

Sunday, 8 December, 2024 , 19:12 AFP — Brandishing the flag of the opposition, dozens of Syrian refugees in Iraq's Kurdistan region on Sunday celebrated the fall of Bashar al-Assad, dubbing the Syrian president's fall a victory for the "revolution".

Sunday, 8 December, 2024 , 18:26 AFP — Syria's president Bashar al-Assad has fled Syria as Islamist-led rebels swept into Damascus Sunday, triggering celebrations across the country and beyond at the end of his oppressive rule.

Sunday, 8 December, 2024 , 16:30 AFP — Celebrations erupted around Syria and crowds ransacked President Bashar al-Assad's luxurious home on Sunday after Islamist-led rebels swept into Damascus and declared he had fled the country, in a spectacular end to five decades of Baath party rule.

Sunday, 8 December, 2024 , 15:24 AFP — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was a "historic day in the... Middle East" and the fall of a "central link in Iran's axis of evil".

Sunday, 8 December, 2024 , 14:30 AFP — Celebrations erupted around Syria and crowds ransacked President Bashar al-Assad's luxurious home on Sunday after Islamist-led rebels swept into Damascus and declared he had fled the country, in a spectacular end to five decades of Baath party rule.

Sunday, 8 December, 2024 , 13:46 AFP — Turkey said on Sunday it wanted to help "guarantee security" in Syria after the fall of president Bashar al-Assad in the face of an offensive by Islamist-led rebels.