In just 11 days, the 24-year rule of President Bashar al-Assad came to an end. The maps below provide a day-by-day overview ...

As rebels make progress in their fight against Assad's government, Newsweek has mapped the regional approach to the conflict.

Following the collapse of Bashar al-Assad's government, Israeli troops moved into the demilitarised zone inside Syria created after the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, including the Syrian side of the ...

The advance continued at pace, with Syria's third city, Homs, falling on Saturday shortly before government forces also lost control of the capital. Syria, with a population of about 22 million ...

An offensive by opposition forces in Syria is redrawing the map of areas controlled by the rebels, despite Russian-backed airstrikes by President Bashar al-Assad and his government forces on the ...

Early Sunday, the rebels said they had made it to the capital, Damascus, after a week of stunning military advances against ...

Bel Trew spent days travelling across Syria – from Aleppo in the north, to the capital Damascus and Deraa in the south – ...

The Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats after World War I, and the recent collapse ...

The fall of the Assad government in Syria took almost everybody by surprise and has created uncertainty for competing foreign interests that had established lines of control most assumed were ...

As rebels seize control in Syria after more than a decade of war, the future is uncertain. Key concerns include al-Assad's ...

The toppling of Bashar Assad has raised tentative hopes that Syrians might live peacefully and as equals after a half century ...