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

Syrian state SANA news agency on Wednesday said insurgents retreated some 20 kilometers (12 miles) from government-held Hama, ...

The rebels have set their sights on an area where President Bashar al-Assad’s government has long maintained strength.

Two rebel groups are leading the push. One is Hayat Tahrir al-Sham ( HTS ), which emerged from al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate.

Syrian forces are battling insurgents just north of the strategic central city of Hama where they are attempting to advance ...

The Syrian civil war, seemingly frozen in an uneasy deadlock for years, has been reignited with rebel forces wresting Aleppo, ...

Syrian rebel fighters redoubled their push to seize the central city of Hama on Wednesday as government forces carried out ...

Syrian and Russian jets are stepping up strikes on opposition forces in northern Syria in retaliation for the sudden ...

A war monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the insurgents led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham seized control of ...

Iranian-backed Iraqi militias have deployed in Syria to back the government’s counteroffensive against a surprise advance by ...

Syrian rebel fighters began preparations to seize Aleppo a year ago but the operation was delayed by war in Gaza and ...