As they have done for decades now, dedicated birders from around the state will converge on Guntersville on December 26 for the annual Christmas Bird Count. Linda Reynolds, the expert birder and ...

Syrian fighters who toppled President Bashar al-Assad have appointed Mohammed al-Bashir as the country’s caretaker prime minister. Al-Bashir, who headed the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham-led de facto ...

President Bashar al-Assad’s brutal crackdown on the 2011 pro-democracy uprising spiralled into a devastating, multi-front war which killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced millions.

The fall of President Bashar al-Assad has raised critical questions about the future of Syria and who speaks for its people. One group aiming for that role is Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which ...

Rebel leader Abu Mohammed al Jolani, whose group was central to the lightning offensive that toppled decades of dictatorship in Syria this weekend, has spent years trying to distance himself from ...

President Joe Biden addressed the nation Sunday (December 8) night after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fled the country amid a rapid rebel advance that toppled his government. Assad reportedly fled ...

A surprise push by rebels has toppled it more than a decade after an uprising first challenged President Bashar al-Assad’s grip on power. He’s fled the country for Russia. What comes next ...

(AP Video shot by Omar Albam) Abu Mohammed al-Golani speaks at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus Sunday Dec. 8, 2024. Golani, a former al-Qaida commander who cut ties with the group and says he embraces ...

Abu Mohammed al-Golani, the militant leader whose stunning insurgency toppled Syria's President Bashar Assad, has spent years working to remake his public image, renouncing longtime ties to al ...

Dec. 9 (UPI) --President Bashar al-Assad of Syria was ousted over the weekend by jihadist-led rebels and has fled to Russia, ending his family's five-decade rule of the Middle Eastern country.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had left office and departed the country after giving orders there be a peaceful handover of power. In a statement ...

The collapse of Assad's government came after a coalition of opposition forces led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham launched a surprise offensive, seizing control of major cities like Aleppo, Hama ...