Fighting resumed in eastern Congo on Monday, again violating a ceasefire, the M23 rebel group and Congolese army said, ...

Syrian militants advance on the city of Hama after taking Aleppo. Fabrice Balanche of the University of Lyon says the Iranian ...

Although the Pentagon has denied taking any part in the rebel offensive against Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, the USA does ...

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

The Syrian civil war has reignited after four years of docility, with five main players deciding the course of events.

In a significant escalation of the Syrian civil war, Islamist rebels, led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), have captured the ...

The Islamist group, which spearheaded of the surprise rebel advance into Aleppo, is an offshoot of al-Qaida in Syria.

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

Russia, a key ally of the Syrian regime, has provided significant military assistance to Assad and has expanded its presence ...

The U.S. military executed a defensive strike in Syria's Deir al-Zor region, separate from the country's rebel movements. The ...

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

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.