A Syrian war monitor said that government forces have launched a counteroffensive near the Hama, pushing back Islamist-led ...

Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations on Tuesday accused Ukrainian intelligence services of aiding group fighting Syrian ...

Iranian foreign minister has said that the country is ready to send troops to Syria and is awaiting official request from ...

The Middle East is today more repressive than it was in 2010. The authoritarian regimes that have emerged since 2011 have ...

In the Levant, Syria’s smoldering civil war flared up, with an apparently reformed Islamist terrorist organization retaking the northern city of Aleppo. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, surprised even ...

Intense airstrikes overnight drove Syrian rebels back from the edge of Hama, a major city whose fall would pile pressure on ...

Syrian insurgents captured four new towns early Tuesday, bringing them closer to the central city of Hama, opposition ...

Over the past dozen years, Syrian militant leader Abu Mohammed al-Golani has worked to remake his image and the insurgency he ...

Jolani's and his Islamic militant group Hayat Tahrir ash-Sham have reinvigorated the rebellion against Syria's Bashar al-Assad.

Since Syria's “Arab Spring,” protests devolved into a decade-plus bloodletting. Fleeing civilians have been caught in the ...

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