The last public sighting of Assad was in a meeting with the Iranian Foreign Minister, on 1 December, when he vowed to "crush" ...

Twenty-three-year-old Syrian military conscript Farhan al-Khouli was badly paid and demoralized. For years, the Islamist ...

Twenty-three-year-old Syrian military conscript Farhan al-Khouli was badly paid and demoralized. His army outpost in ...

In-depth: Iraqi militias once crossed their western neighbour's border at will, having played a role in supporting Assad ...

The Syrian Arab Army is no more, an institution built to fight Israel that eventually ate itself due to rampant corruption ...

With Assad gone and Sunni Syrian rebel groups in charge, Iranians are fleeing the country. No more will they be able to ...

What comes next won’t be easy, but it could be extraordinary.

In the days before the fall of Assad, there were calls for Iraqi militias to intervene in the Syrian war. These included ...

Not long ago, Tehran’s network of militias appeared ascendant. “The resistance front has had a really hard year,” Iran’s ...

Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, has fled his country, Hezbollah is battered by conflict with Israel, and Hamas is still ...

This prediction has reached the Iranian-backed Iraqi militias in Baghdad and various governorates, which have taken ...

"The military operation targeted a vital facility in southern Israel with the use of several drones," the movement’s military spokesperson Yahya Sarea said ...