Muslim armies, advancing north from the Arabian Peninsula, were able to easily enter Damascus from its east gate, which was ...

Fierce fighting erupted between the Turkey-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces ...

Syrians who remained loyal to him through years of civil war fume that he left without a word. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Syrian regime’s collapse came more quickly than the rebels had dreamed — the circumstances were both serendipitous and ...

Ahmad Morjan hugged his mother for the first time in more than 13 years when he returned to Aleppo. Others who fled the Assad ...

The moment he arrived home to Syria from Turkey, Ahmed al-Kassem held his sister in a tight embrace, after not seeing each ...

By contrast, rebels in the northwest, on paper numerically far weaker than the army, had spent years consolidating under a ...

Twenty-three-year-old Syrian military conscript Farhan al-Khouli was badly paid and demoralized. His army outpost in scrubland near the rebel-held city of Idlib should have had nine soldiers but it ...

For Syrians who fled its civil war to settle in the UK, talk of going back looms large amid hopes and fears for the country’s ...

Assad, who has not spoken in public since the lightning rebel advance, has fled Damascus, reportedly to Moscow ...