and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry hold a news conference in Vienna in 2015 amid frustrated efforts to find a political solution to Syria’s civil war. Brendan Smialowski/Reuters A woman ...

Syria's civil war began in 2011 after civilians led pro-democracy protests against Assad, and his government responded by opening fire on its own people. The ensuing war is thought to have killed ...

By Raja Abdulrahim Syrian opposition fighters have made their most significant advance in years against government forces, shaking up a civil war that had long been at a stalemate. The new rebel ...

amid renewed fighting in war-torn Syria. Some 20 others were reportedly injured in the strike on a roundabout, the first in the city centre since rebels entered Aleppo this week. The incident was ...

“My heart longed for this moment,” added Jolani. “There is not a single household in Syria that the war has not touched.” Before armed fighters set off a stunning offensive last ...

a monitor of Syria’s war said Saturday, as clashes continued with government forces and Russian warplanes launched airstrikes on parts of the city. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights ...

Israeli warplanes have conducted hundreds of strikes in Syria since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday, according to war monitors. Israel has characterized its operations as defensive ...

Syria's civil war grew out of Assad's brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protests in 2011. More than a decade later, about half a million people have been killed, according to The Syrian ...

said on Monday that Tokyo was paying close attention to developments in Syria. Meanwhile, the rebels face the monumental task of rebuilding and running a country after a war that left hundreds of ...

The rekindling of fighting in Syria comes after a four-year lull in a civil war that first broke out in 2011. The uneasy stalemate among the country’s various hostile factions was broken when ...

The renewed fighting in Aleppo marks a new phase in Syria’s long-running civil war, which began in 2011 during the Arab Spring protests. The forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had ...