Bashar al-Assad

Former Isis bride Shamima Begum may one day return to Britain, after government minister Angela Eagle refused to rule out allowing her back.

The IDF confirmed that the military launched targeted air strikes on "military infrastructure" in Syria to prevent Iranian arms shipments from reaching Hezbollah.

Assad regime was forced to call a ceasefire after rebel forces responded to the relentless assault on civilian territories in Idlib, Syria.

The group has received funding from a number of governments, including Britain, Denmark, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands and the United States.

Syria's Assad in first official visit to Aleppo since war

The UK has been cracking down against individuals who are deemed to be supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

In the last multi-candidate poll in 2014, Assad won 88 percent of the vote.

North Korea's arms exporter is believed to have made at least 40 shipments through a complex smuggling network.

Opposition activists say that Damascus has used chemical weapons on the rebel-held enclave of Ghouta, a day after a UN-brokered ceasefire was passed.

Israeli satellites spot two of Moscow's advanced fighter aircraft, Su-57, at an airbase in Syria.

The UN Security Council unanimously called for the implementation of a 30-day truce deal across Syria in what is a significant development.

The latest butchery in the Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta by Assad forces shames the isolationist United Kingdom.

More than 250 people have been killed in intense bombing from Syrian government forces in eastern Ghouta. At least 50 children were among the dead.

Over Syrian 1,000 civilians, many of them children, were killed in the first week of February alone as air strikes hit hospitals, schools and markets.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised to continue strikes in Syria despite the risk of sparking a conflict with Iran via its Syrian and Lebanese proxies.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says 384 people, including 94 children, have been killed in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region since 29 January.

The Syrian regime claimed that most of the projectiles fired by Israeli forces were intercepted.

London-born Lucas Kinney stars has appeared in a new al-Qaeda propaganda video where he appeals for jihadists to join the fight against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Arabic.

American officials suspect the Syrian regime has found a way to develop a new chemical weapon and could have kept it hidden in secret locations.

The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) warns of Iran's interference and growing Hezbollah influence in Lebanon.

Buttressed by aerial bombardment and cross-border artillery fire, the ground personnel are advancing inside the Syrian territory along with tanks.

Emir was one of six children killed by Syrian and Russian air strikes on Eastern Ghouta on Monday. Since 29 December, 126 people, including 29 children, have lost their lives.

A few desperately sick children have been evacuated to hospitals in Damascus from the besieged rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta, but many more remain.

Syrians are covering one eye in photos to support #SolidaritywithKarim after baby lost one eye in artillery attack on eastern Ghouta by Bashar al-Assad's regime.

"I have taken a decision: a significant part of the Russian troop contingent located in Syria is returning home to Russia," Putin said.

The UN said children are stranded in a rebel-held suburb near Damascus and five have reportedly died from a lack of medical care.

Photos of the shattered Syrian city of Raqqa after a fierce four-month battle to expel Islamic State (Isis/Daesh).

Sahar's skeletal body weighed four pounds (1.9kg) when she reached the hospital in eastern Ghouta region, where humanitarian access is restricted due to a blockade imposed by the Assad regime.

Syrian battery attacked after it allegedly fired on Israeli warplanes during reconnaissance mission over neighbouring Lebanon.

The Nato allies are drifting apart when the West needs Turkey to be close, and it's tragic for both sides.