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 ...
A sudden flare-up in the more than decade-old civil war in Syria has drawn international appeals for de-escalation. Read more ...
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.
At least 27 people have been killed near the Syrian city of Hama as forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad try to beat ...