The stunning fall of the Syrian government early Sunday - a bloodless coup by Islamist rebels that ended the brutal 50-year ...

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 ...

It comes days after rebels swept into parts of northwestern Syria that the regime had controlled for years. Nick Schifrin discussed the reignition of the civil war and its implications with ...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor, said the insurgents blew up two car bombs at the city’s western edge on Friday. An insurgent commander issued a recorded message posted on ...

The fall of Bashar al-Assad’s government in Syria has now created a situation of relative uncertainty inside the country. Although the victory of the 13-year-long bloody war is firmly that of what was ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based war monitor, reported early Monday that Israeli ...

Through this set-up, City of Ghosts explores the complex and devastating Syrian Civil War, which began in 2011 and, as of early 2024, is still technically ongoing. This documentary is one of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the largest escalation in the Syrian war in years, Syrian rebels have taken considerable ground, including most of Syria’s second city, Aleppo, and continue to fight towards the city of Hama.

What are all these groups in Syria? Many groups formed to join the war, fighting both the regime forces and, at times, each other as their ideologies clashed. However, as the conflict wore on ...