Years of war and a powerful earthquake had led to crushing poverty, displacement and breakdowns in services. But over the ...

Iran and Russia, both stretched by conflicts of their own, have experienced setbacks in Syria after a rebel offensive in the ...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights voiced concern on Tuesday about the escalation of hostilities in ...

Opposition forces seeking to overthrow Syria's President Bashar al-Assad launched their biggest offensive in years last week, ...

Islamist-led rebels advanced on Syria's fourth-largest city Hama Tuesday, buoyed by their lightning capture of swathes of the ...

The Syrian military has rushed in reinforcements to push back insurgents from advancing farther after they seized Aleppo in a ...

The sudden assault by Syrian rebels has rapidly redrawn the civil war’s front lines and threatened once again the authority ...

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Turkey’s foreign minister says the recent rapid advance by opposition fighters in Syria shows that Syrian President Bashar ...

A patchwork of rebel forces has seized control of a broad stretch of western and northwestern Syria. It’s unclear how much ...