A historian explains why U.S. sanctions and Iran and Russia’s entanglements in other wars helped create an opening for rebel ...

By Maya Gebeily and Suleiman Al-Khalidi BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) -Syrian rebels advancing against government forces pushed ...

Islamist-led rebels are pressing a major offensive in northern Syria in which they seized the second city Aleppo from the government for the first time since civil war erupted in 2011.

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The US and NATO-backed war for regime change in Syria, launched in 2011, has been revived. Turkey, Syria’s northern neighbour ...

The consequences of recent events in the Middle East and their impact on the military balance. Thomas L. Friedman shares his ...

Hezbollah leaving Assad’s territory has made his regime vulnerable, enabling significant gains by Syrian opposition, though ...

The Syrian civil war has reignited after four years of docility, with five main players deciding the course of events.

Insurgents have breached Syria’s second-largest city, Aleppo, and were clashing with government forces on the city's western edge on Friday, according to a Syria war monitor and fighters ...

Syria’s long civil war has reclaimed global attention after insurgents seized most of its largest city and dozens of nearby towns and villages.

Iran and Russia, both stretched by conflicts of their own, have experienced setbacks in Syria after a rebel offensive in the ...

Some violations of the truce, and some amount of violence, are to be expected, analysts say, and do not necessarily mean the ...