East of Dohuk, Iraq, a few hundred Syrian Kurdish men have been training for battle, marching through scrub brush and practicing rifle drills, The New York Times reported. The men, many of them defectors from the Syrian Army living in trailers dotting a ...

Four Russian nationals, and perhaps dozens more, were killed in fighting between pro-government forces in eastern Syria and members of the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State, according to Russian and Syrian officials. Much about the attack and ...

BEIRUT — The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for two attacks in southern Syria, including one on government forces that an opposition war monitor described as the first on the Syrian army to be carried out by the extremists since the fall ...

STORY: Syria’s civil war is over, but the two largest armed camps in the country are still facing off across the Euphrates River. One side is under the control of the new Damascus government and the new Syrian military, and is dominated by former ...

Fighting continued for a fifth straight day in the strategic Syrian city of Qusayr, as opposition forces fighting the regime of President Bashar Assad sought desperately to maintain their slipping grip in a battle that could dictate the direction of the war.

Three seriously wounded; rocket-firing brothers nabbed in Beit Jinn; 13 said killed by IDF strikes after troops face fire; Syria denounces 'war crime' The post Six soldiers hurt in gun battle as IDF detains terror suspects in southern Syria appeared first on The Times of Israel.

The backbone of the army are the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham units that came out of Idlib and had fought Assad’s military for years, as well as units from southern Syria and units linked to Turkey. Members of the Syrian military took part in a graduation ...

A year after Bashar Assad's fall, Syria grapples with healing from decades of repression and civil war. While former prisoner Mohammad Marwan finds life outside Saydnaya prison, the nation faces ongoing challenges with sectarian violence,

Syria’s sectarian war is widening and its interim president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, seems part of the problem, rather than the solution. On Friday, America’s ambassador to Turkey, Tom Barrack, announced a “breakthrough” cease-fire, but atrocities ...