But they paid a heavy price for their defiance. At least 700 were killed in one of the worst massacres of the war in August ...
Dec 8 - Supporters of rebels who ousted President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday have entered some Syrian embassies abroad to hoist their flag, while insurgents also entered the Italian envoy's residence ...
Turkish-backed Syrian rebels seized at least one village from Islamic State on Saturday near Turkey's border with Syria in further advances against the militant group, the insurgents and monitors said ...
A suicide bomber suspected of having links to Islamic State tried to target a church in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on New Year's Eve before detonating his explosive belt near a security patrol ...
Raqqa city was once dubbed the “hotel of the revolution” because it became home to hundreds of thousands of people displaced from fighting elsewhere who sought refuge in a place considered firmly in ...
Syrian security officers at their graduation ceremony in Damascus in February.Credit...David Guttenfelder/The New York Times Supported by By Raja Abdulrahim Reporting from Aleppo, Idlib and Damascus, ...
Two Syrian girls walk to school through the ruin of Daraya — LOUAI BESHARA Like a ghost in the night, Bilal Shorba, the artist they call the "Syrian Banksy", slipped through the rubble of Daraya to ...
Show more Show less Two Syrian girls walk to school through the ruin of Daraya Hussam Jamus, a doctor who has returned to Daraya, treats a young patient in his surgery Activist Amneh Khoulani had ...