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By Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Maya Gebeily AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) -Hundreds of fighters from Iran-backed Iraqi militias crossed ...

Assad’s forces on the defensive, the prized Russian military bases in Syria no longer appear to be impenetrable fortresses ...

Even as Israel bombarded Syria, officials say the U.S. and Gulf countries were working to weaken its president’s alliance ...

Rather than coming out of nowhere, the dynamics that led to the HTS rebels' offensive in Syria have been building for a long ...

Syria's military announced on Saturday a "temporary troop withdrawal" in Aleppo to prepare a counteroffensive against what it ...

Iran and Russia, both stretched by conflicts of their own, have experienced setbacks in Syria after a rebel offensive in the ...

Turkey will be the key player in ending the rebel push by Syrian insurgents against President Bashar al-Assad.

Syria said Wednesday its counteroffensive has pushed back insurgents attempting to advance to the strategic central city of ...

Intense airstrikes overnight drove Syrian rebels back from the edge of Hama, a major city whose fall would pile pressure on ...

Over the past dozen years, Syrian militant leader Abu Mohammed al-Golani has worked to remake his image and the insurgency he ...

Syria’s long civil war has reclaimed global attention after insurgents seized most of its largest city and dozens of nearby ...