Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met President Bashar Assad in Damascus on Sunday as Syria launched a counterattack ...

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

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

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

Fighters from a U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led coalition battled Syrian government forces in northeast Syria early on Tuesday, both ...

Russia, Iran and Hezbollah, otherwise known as Bashar Assad’s lifeline in Syria, have bigger fish to fry at the moment.

LONDON -- I was in Aleppo, Syria, with rebel fighters when they first entered the city in 2012. It was the full bloom of what ...

Islamist rebels in Syria are taking the fight to the Assad regime. Still, the strongman's grip on power isn't under threat.

As the anti-Assad rebel forces’ surprise counteroffensive against regime forces stretches into its fifth day, Russia and ...

Iran will weigh sending troops to Syria if President Bashar Al-Assad requested such a move to stop a rebel advance that’s causing the biggest threat to his rule in years.

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