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 ...

Slender shoulders, a limp handshake and soft-spoken lisp. Those were the most vivid memories from my meeting with Bashar al ...

had spent years consolidating under a single operations room that coordinated their groups and units in battle, an ...

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

capturing Khansir in an attempt to cut off the army's main supply route to Aleppo city. [49] In the days after the battle, while the Syrian Salvation Government was trying to establish itself in the ...