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

Syria state media say government troops are battling insurgents inside the country’s largest city Aleppo for the first time ...

By Maya Gebeily and Suleiman Al-Khalidi BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) -Syrian rebels advancing against government forces pushed ...

Israel’s defense minister says that if the shaky ceasefire with Hezbollah collapses, Israel will widen its strikes and target ...

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The rebel groups fighting in Syria’s 13-year-long war are a complex patchwork of fighters, focused on battling against ...

An array of domestic and foreign powers are vying for influence in Lebanon, including the Lebanese Armed Forces, Hezbollah, ...

The shock capture of Aleppo by Syrian forces opposed to Bashar al-Assad in recent days has dealt a humiliating blow to the ...

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

However, much has changed in the years since Putin's intervention in Syria's civil war. The Russian president's invasion of ...

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.