Rebel forces capture Aleppo in a surprise offensive, marking a potential turning point in Syria's 13-year civil war.

Jolani's and his Islamic militant group Hayat Tahrir ash-Sham have reinvigorated the rebellion against Syria's Bashar al-Assad.

Syrian opposition factions have seized full control of the city of Aleppo and the entire Idlib province, key territories in ...

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The rebel groups fighting in Syria’s 13-year-long war are a complex patchwork of fighters, focused on battling against ...

A historian explains why U.S. sanctions and Iran and Russia’s entanglements in other wars helped create an opening for rebel ...

However, much has changed in the years since Putin's intervention in Syria's civil war. The Russian president's invasion of ...

Islamist-led rebels are pressing a major offensive in northern Syria in which they seized the second city Aleppo from the government for the first time since civil war erupted in 2011.

The US and NATO-backed war for regime change in Syria, launched in 2011, has been revived. Turkey, Syria’s northern neighbour ...

The spokesperson went on to to call the Syrian rebels 'terrorists', in a statement echoing regime leader Bashar al-Assad ...

The Syrian civil war has reignited after four years of docility, with five main players deciding the course of events.

Insurgents have breached Syria’s second-largest city, Aleppo, and were clashing with government forces on the city's western edge on Friday, according to a Syria war monitor and fighters ...