The U.S.-backed Syrian rebel forces have seized Deir ez-Zor in the latest setback for President Bashar al-Assad. Follow ...

Syria's transition is fragile, one year on from the overthrow of ruler Bashar al-Assad, and the country's cycles of vengeance ...

The raid was one of Israel’s deadliest cross-border incursions since Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s former dictator, was ousted ...

Like a ghost in the night, Bilal Shorba, the artist they call the “Syrian Banksy”, slipped through the rubble of Daraya to ...

An Israeli military operation on a Syrian village Friday morning turned into the deadliest attack by a foreign nation on Syria since the ouster of former dictator Bashar al-Assad last year.

Like a ghost in the night, Bilal Shorba, the artist they call the "Syrian Banksy", slipped through the rubble of Daraya to ...

Rebels are now in full control of Saraqeb after regime troops pulled back during Thursday's fighting, the Observatory said. That gives the rebels a strategic point on the main highway linking Syria's ...

Less than 100 rebel fighters are currently being trained by the US military to combat Isis in Syria, the Pentagon has revealed. The lowly numbers are a result of the stringent vetting procedures in ...

It was pomegranate season when the battle for Wadi Deif began in mid-October. Like so many rebel offensives, the fight for the Syrian military base, just east of the devastated city of Maaret Numan ...

In the early afternoon of Sept. 14, a stout, square-shouldered man in his mid-60s, wearing a dark suit, gleaming black tie and a thick, neatly trimmed mustache, stepped off the escalator that had just ...

One Western diplomat in the region said: "There was talk of them using it two weeks ago, but the Russians intervened quickly to stop him. "If you think how desperate these people are and what they ...