In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged Assad’s rule. Tens of thousands of people were killed by the government’s ...

Israel is building military bases in the demilitarised buffer zone with Syria, according to satellite images seen by Al Jazeera’s Sanad verification unit. The images were taken between December ...

Israel and Syria have fought multiple conflicts, but for decades the border separating the two has been largely quiet. They last went to war in 1973, when Syria and Egypt invaded Israel on Yom ...

Image Israeli troops on the Syrian side of the buffer zone between Israel and Syria.Credit...Atef Safadi/EPA, via Shutterstock Israel and Syria have fought multiple conflicts, but for decades ...

Israel and Syria have fought multiple conflicts, but for decades, the border separating the two has been largely quiet. They last went to war in 1973, when Syria and Egypt attacked Israel on Yom ...

The stunning downfall of Syria’s longtime leader, Bashar al-Assad, closed a chapter in the country’s decade-long civil war. But it also marked the start of an Israeli incursion into the border region, ...