The rebel group H.T.S. was born as an Islamic State branch. But since pivoting from international jihad, it became dominant ...
Syrian rebels captured the city of Hama on Thursday, a major victory in a week-old lightning advance across northern ...
The war broke out in 2011, when Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ’s regime violently suppressed protests that had spread ...
The fall of Syria's second city, Aleppo, to Islamist-led rebels has brought flight and displacement for some, but for others ...
The rebel coalition consists of "well-established armed Islamist factions who, despite their differences, are united in ...
Middle East watchers say the best hope for Israel is that two of its enemies weaken but don’t destroy each other.
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However, much has changed in the years since Putin's intervention in Syria's civil war. The Russian president's invasion of ...
At least 300 fighters, primarily from Iraq's Badr and Nujabaa groups, crossed late on Sunday using a dirt road to avoid the ...
A Syrian photographer working for the German press agency DPA has been killed in an airstrike in the Hama countryside, where ...