DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Almost 30% of the millions of Syrian refugees living in Middle Eastern countries want to return home in the next year, following the fall of President Bashar al-Assad, up from almost none last year, the head of the U.N.'s refugee agency said.

A new type of Syrian refugee is fleeing across the border into Lebanon: those who once supported dictator Bashar Al-Assad.

Since Assad’s fall in the first week of December, Israel has destroyed a large proportion of Syria’s strategic stock of weapons so that they do not fall into the hands of Islamic State and other hostile forces. And Israel has unilaterally seized the Syrian side of Mount Hermon and the United Nations demilitarized zone adjacent to the Golan Heights.

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Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister on Friday made his first visit to Syria since the ouster of former president Bashar Al Assad and held talks with the country's new leader, Ahmad Al Shara. Prince Faisal bin Farhan's visit to Damascus comes as the Syrian transitional government seeks investments to help rebuild the country after 14 years of civil

"At least under the former dictator, Bashar al-Assad," he says ... They're mostly Syrian fighters with the Iran-backed group Hezbollah, who fought alongside Syria's army against the rebel ...

The rebel offensive benefited from careful preparation and the support of Turkey, which occupies territory in Syria’s north and provided the only safe access route to Idlib, where HTS was based. Even so,

Six people were killed on Tuesday in Syria’s central Homs province, a war monitor said, as security forces launched a sweep of the area.The security forces

Syria's central bank has ordered commercial banks to freeze all accounts tied to people and companies linked to the ousted regime of former President Bashar

Israel has killed thousands of Hamas fighters. But the Gaza-based terrorist organization has not yet been completely destroyed, nor have its allied militias in the region.

Bashar al-Assad – Backed by Iran and Russia A 2018 Times of Israel report noted that Iran maintained about ten military bases in Syria. Iran-backed Hezbollah, a political party with a powerful militia based in southern Lebanon, joined the Syrian civil ...

Dozens of relatives and friends of people who went missing during the regime of deposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad rally in ... controlled by Lebanese Hezbollah and Iraqi Shia militias.