The Latest Breaking News on War in Ukraine

Some journalists underestimated the threat of the brutal president, while his first lady was glamorised in a Vogue feature, writes Zoe Williams

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday asked for more support from Germany against Russia while meeting with opposition leader Friedrich Merz, who is leading opinion polls ahead of German elections in February.

The collapse of Moscow ally Bashar al-Assad's Syrian government has dealt a major blow to Russia's image of global strength and laid bare the limits of its military reach as its Ukraine offensive drags on.

Assad and his family are reportedly in asylum in Russia after rebel fighters stormed Damascus

The Syrian opposition’s recent capture of the country’s largest city of Aleppo caught much of the international community by surprise. After the involvement of Russia, Iran and Hezbollah in the prolonged Syrian civil war, many observers assumed that Bashar al-Assad’s forces had won the conflict.

Raed al-Saleh tells Al Jazeera rescuers found bodies in ovens and executions took place daily at notorious facility.

Rebel groups ousted Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria on Sunday after 13 years of civil war

Bashar al-Assad’s apparatus ran more than 100 detention facilities where it tortured indiscriminately.

The US bombing of Syria so soon after the rebels toppled Assad suggests a nervousness from the West about what happens in the country next

Could the rebel flag represent the country following the toppling of Bashar al-Assad?