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 ...

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

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

Brent crude futures rose 23 cents, or 0.3%, to $73.85 a barrel by 0700 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate crude futures gained 19 cents, or 0.3%, to $70.13 ...

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

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.

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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 ...

FRONTLINE has been covering the war since it began in 2011, tracing its origins and evolution, its impact on the country’s people, and how the U.S. has responded.

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