Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Share ISTANBUL (AP) — Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of Turkey’s banned Kurdistan Workers ...

Despite what most fans assumed, his cause of death was not related to the rare flesh-eating disease he was diagnosed with five years prior. Instead, he died two weeks after being rushed to a Los ...

SYRIA’S DE FACTO leader, Abu Mohammed al-Julani, attends a meeting with former rebel faction chiefs, in Damascus, on December 24. (photo credit: SANA/REUTERS) Your revolt was still young when ...

Syria’s new government is searching for a senior official from the Assad dictatorship and for military forces loyal to the ousted president. By Adam Rasgon Security forces for Syria’s new ...

Armed rebel fighters keep watch as people take part in a "Liberation Festival" to celebrate the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, in Idlib, northwestern Syria, on Sunday. (Bilal Al ...

Syria’s new leadership has taken steps to try to unite disparate rebel factions under a single government, the latest move to try to assert authority over the country in the wake of Bashar al ...

Several Syrian rebel faction chiefs have agreed to dissolve their groups and fall under the new leadership of the country's defence ministry. However, one Kurdish-backed group has launched a ...

Syria's new government has brokered a deal with some rebel factions to dissolve and merge with the defence ministry. The country's de facto leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, has said the HTS group which ...

DAMASCUS, Dec 24 (Reuters) - Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa reached an agreement on Tuesday with former rebel faction chiefs to dissolve all groups and consolidate them under the defence ...

Syria’s de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa has reached an agreement with rebel factions to come together as one force under the Defence Ministry, according to the new Syrian general administration.

DAMASCUS, Syria—Victorious Islamist rebel leader Ahmed al-Sharaa spends his days conferring with advisers and meeting a stream of visitors—U.S. diplomats and leaders from Turkey, Jordan ...