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RAF Typhoons patrol the skies over the Middle East where they had an encounter with two huge Russian military transport jets (Picture: Top Guns: Inside the RAF, Channel 4)

RAF fighter pilots have 'nerve-wracking' encounter with 154ft Russian jets

UK February 25, 2025 By Josh Layton

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Balkis Press/ABACA/REX/Shutterstock (14981305a) ? Ammar Abd Rabbo/ABACA. 40868-14. London-UK, 17/12/2002. Before their departure from UK, Syrian president Bashar Al Assad and his wife Asma meet with Duke Michael of Kent and his wife Alexandra during a cocktail party at the Dorchester Hotel. 40868 16 - 08 Dec 2024

Assad's British wife 'blocked from returning to UK for cancer treatment'

UK December 29, 2024 By Jen Mills

Syrian President Bashar Assad and his wife Asma visit a group of young athletes of special needs gathered at a hotel in Damascus late on September 5, 2010, ahead of the opening of the annual Middle East and North Africa Special Needs Olympics later this month. Participants from 23 countries, including Iran, will take part in the one-week tournament first launched in 1993 as of September 25, 2010. AFP PHOTO/ LOUAI BESHARA (Photo credit should read LOUAI BESHARA/AFP via Getty Images)

British wife of ex-Syrian dictator given '50/50' chance of survival from cancer

World December 25, 2024 By Sarah Hooper

Assad's British wife to 'divorce dictator and move to UK'

World December 23, 2024 By Tom Sanders

TV host asks why he's 'required to hate' leader whose regime killed thousands

World December 18, 2024 By Sarah Hooper

A drone view shows the site of a mass grave from the rule of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, according to residents, after the ousting of al-Assad, in Al Qutayfah, Syria, December 17, 2024. REUTERS/Ammar Awad

Brits 'among thousands of bodies found in mass graves' in Syria

World December 18, 2024 By Sarah Hooper

FILE - In this photo provided Nov. 9, 2019, by the official Syrian news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks in Damascus, Syria. (SANA via AP, File)

Bashar al-Assad describes dying moments of his dictatorship with defiant tone

World December 16, 2024 By Sarah Hooper

What is the 'earthquake bomb' Israel dropped on Syria causing huge explosion?

World December 16, 2024 By Sara Odeen-Isbister

How years of sexual violence in Syria have impacted civilians - and what's next for them

World December 14, 2024 By Sarah Hooper

How the drug trade funded Bashar al-Assad's £5,000,000,000 Syrian empire

World December 11, 2024 By Sarah Hooper

People hold a large Syrian opposition flag at Umayyad Square in Damascus on December 9, 2024. Syrians flocked to the main square of the capital city Damascus on December 9 to mark what many regard as a long-awaited new dawn after the fall of president Bashar al-Assad. Assad fled to Russia the day before after a lightning offensive spearheaded by Islamist rebels ousted him from power, opening a new chapter in Syria's history after five decades of rule by his clan. (Photo by Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP) (Photo by OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP via Getty Images)

Map shows which countries have paused Syrian refugee decisions after Assad's fall

World December 11, 2024 By Craig Munro

Son of one of Syria's longest-serving political prisoners tells of joy at dad's release

Son of one of Syria's longest-serving political prisoners tells of joy at dad's release

UK December 9, 2024 By Josh Layton

Assad's iTunes playlist (and other things dictators got up to in 'retirement')

World December 10, 2024 By Gethin Hicks

DAMASCUS, SYRIA - DECEMBER 9: People are seen at the Sednaya Military Prison after armed groups, opposing Syria's Bashar al-Assad regime take control in Damascus, Syria on December 9, 2024. (Photo by Emin Sansar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Inside Syria’s ‘slaughterhouse’ prison - where more than 100,000 people have died

World December 11, 2024 By Tom Sanders

(FILES) Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma arrive for a dinner at the Petit Palais, after attending Paris' Union for the Mediterranean founding summit on July 13, 2008 in Paris. A Syria war monitor said that Assad has left the country, after losing swathes of territory to a lightning offensive led by an Islamist-led rebel coalition that said it entered Damascus on December 8, 2024. (Photo by Gerard CERLES / AFP) (Photo by GERARD CERLES/AFP via Getty Images)

The unusual life of Bashar al Assad’s wife Asma, born and raised in London

World December 9, 2024 By Craig Munro

The leader of Syria's Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group

Who controls Syria now? The rebel fighters who toppled a 'tyrant'

World December 9, 2024 By Alice Murphy

An aerial photo of a Syrian naval ship destroyed after an Israeli air strike.

Israel bombs Syria 480 times to 'stop weapons getting into rebel hands'

World December 10, 2024 By Sarah Hooper

Anti-government fighters pose for a picture on a tank

Who are the Syrian rebels and what are they fighting for?

World December 9, 2024 By Gergana Krasteva

At least 33 killed in IS ambush on trucks in Syria

World August 13, 2023 By Gergana Krasteva

Syrian soldiers ready to join the conflict in eastern Ukraine

Vladimir Putin enlists 16,000 volunteer fighters from Middle East for Ukraine war

World March 12, 2022 By James Hockaday