said people were terrified they would see a repeat of the Russian-led bombing that killed thousands of people before driving out rebels a decade ago. Syrian troops who had withdrawn from the city ...

intensified this bombing in the last three months, which is one of the reasons why this offensive was eventually launched by the rebel groups. More broadly, Syria had been kind of under a low ...

Entering the weekend, Syria President Bashar al-Assad showed no signs of yielding. As armed rebels closed in Saturday on Damascus, Assad ordered his forces to defend the Syrian capital ...

Russian warplanes have intensified their strikes on rebel-held ... on a pocket of territory near Aleppo that was controlled by a Kurdish-led militia alliance, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

Islamist-led insurgents poured into the Syrian city, rebelling against the regime of Bashar al-Assad. The offensive is seen as a setback for the government in Damascus and its all ...

The military chief of Syria's victorious Islamist group Hayat ... to Israel's repeated strikes and "incursion" into Syrian territory. "We view the Israeli strikes on military sites and the ...

Which is to say: Russia, Iran, and Hezbollah—Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s main allies, which have kept him in power for the past decade by helping him bomb, strafe, and otherwise crush a variety ...

Assad long relied on allies to subdue the rebels. Russian warplanes conducted bombing while Iran sent allied forces including Lebanon's Hezbollah and Iraqi militia to reinforce the Syrian military ...

A monitor of Syria's war said on Saturday that jihadist rebels now control a majority ... The Russian military said Friday it was bombing "extremist" forces, as Turkey demanded a halt to ...

seizing government-held territory and capturing Damascus on Sunday. Assad fled Syria as the Islamist-led rebels swept into the capital, bringing a spectacular end to five decades of brutal rule by ...

His visit came as leaders of the rebel group that ousted al-Assad and has taken power in Syria say they do not want a conflict with Israel — but that the Israelis need to stop bombing inside ...