Losing a Cabinet nominee to the confirmation process isn’t unheard of for incoming presidents — including for Donald Trump ...

Syrian insurgents captured four new towns early Tuesday, bringing them closer to the central city of Hama, opposition ...

Iran will weigh sending troops to Syria if President Bashar Al-Assad requested such a move to stop a rebel advance that’s causing the biggest threat to his rule in years.

Over the past dozen years, Syrian militant leader Abu Mohammed al-Golani has worked ...

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

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

Fighters from a U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led coalition battled Syrian government forces in northeast Syria early on Tuesday, both ...

Islamist rebels in Syria are taking the fight to the Assad regime. According to activists, Shiite militants have begun ...

The rebel advance in Aleppo has taken everyone by surprise, including Assad. While the future is murky at best, Syrians can ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met President Bashar Assad in Damascus on Sunday as Syria launched a counterattack ...

But lawmakers and former intelligence officials say some of her comments, and a secret visit in 2017 to meet Syria’s Assad, have cast doubt on her judgment and raised questions about whether she ...