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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump is to meet with the new Syrian leader, a onetime insurgent, before wrapping up his visit to Saudi ...

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 ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump’s announcement that the U.S. will ease sanctions on Syria could eventually facilitate the country’s ...

Syria’s new president, the former rebel ... must take these Syrian interests into consideration.” Image A Russian military vehicle heading toward the Mediterranean Sea, near Homs, in mid ...

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 ...