Islamist-led rebels are pressing a major offensive in northern Syria in which they seized the second city Aleppo from the government for the first time since civil war erupted in 2011.

CAIRO (Reuters) - The Israeli military confirmed on Tuesday that its forces had killed Salman Jumaa, a senior Hezbollah figure responsible for liaising with the Syrian army, in Damascus.

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The insurgents’ military operations administration said gunmen killed 50 government forces as they captured 14 central villages and towns including Halfaya, Taybat al-Imam, Maardis and Soran. The ...

War in Syria has suddenly re-exploded, having remained unresolved since 2011. As the factions reignite battle lines in a ...

BEIRUT - An Israeli airstrike on a car near Syria's capital Damascus on Tuesday killed Salman Jumaa, a senior Hezbollah ...

Earlier, a source in the police department of Damascus reported that "a car was blown up on the highway leading to the airport in an act of Israeli aggression" ...

However, much has changed in the years since Putin's intervention in Syria's civil war. The Russian president's invasion of ...

Islamist-led rebels advanced on Syria's fourth-largest city Hama Tuesday, buoyed by their lightning capture of swathes of the ...

The incident followed a series of actions attributed to Israel. On Sunday night, Israeli fighter jets reportedly interdicted an Iranian aircraft over Syrian airspace. The plane, suspected of carrying ...

Israel’s defense minister warned that if the shaky ceasefire with Hezbollah collapses, Israel will widen its strikes and ...

An Israeli air strike hit a car on the Damascus airport road on Tuesday, causing it to explode, Syria's official news agency SANA reported. "A car exploded after it was targeted in an Israeli ...