Syrian rebels claim to have captured a fifth city ... that it’s “pretty much the endgame for Assad” if the rebels take Homs. “Once they get Homs, then really Damascus is cut off and ...

Up to 10,000 fighters lent muscle during the overthrow of the Assad regime. But their hard-line interpretations of Sunni Islam make them a liability for the new rulers.

The rebels’ rapid advance from their strongholds in northern Syria has seen them take the strategic cities of Aleppo, Hama and Homs, as government forces melted away. Earlier, rebels said they ...

What began as protests against President Assad’s regime in 2011 quickly escalated into a full-scale war between the Syrian government—backed by Russia and Iran—and anti-government rebel ...

Neighbors and colleagues reported on each other everywhere. Now, Syrians are shadowed by the question of who among them had ...

In the midst of the Boston investigation, the looming interrogation of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the challenge of immigration reform, and the fight over gun control, it's easy to forget that there's a ...

The Islamist-led rebels were at the gates of Syria's Homs, a war monitor said, after wresting other key cities from government control. In little over a week, the offensive has seen Syria's second ...

Ahmed al-Sharaa rose from al Qaeda militant to Syrian leader. President Trump's decision to lift U.S. santions on Syria is a major boost for Sharaa. Syrian rebels ... will take place, but that ...

On Dec. 8, after nearly 54 years in power and 13 years of war, the Syrian civil war came to an end. And with it, the fall of the Assad family’s rule. For many Syrian students who call the University ...

to share a piece of this moment with the Syrian families who, like me, have spent years in exile. I hoped they’d remember my face and take the memory of it back home with them. A group of ...

PREMIUM Foreign Jihadists Helped Syria’s Rebels Take Power. Now They’re a Problem ... The attacks occurred in a coastal area home to Syria’s Alawites, a minority group to which the Assad ...