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

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

Syrian state SANA news agency on Wednesday said insurgents retreated some 20 kilometers (12 miles) from government-held Hama, ...

Overnight, pro-government reinforcements drove Syrian rebels back from the edge of Hama, a key city whose fall would mark a ...

Syria holds strategic importance for Moscow and Tehran, which have both bolstered Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime at ...

Turkey and Iran, which support opposing sides in Syria’s civil war, said they have agreed to resume diplomatic efforts along ...

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

The surprise offensive by rebels in Syria has shifted the front lines settled in 2020. While the opposition forces led by ...

Senators on both sides of the aisle are holding back from cheering rebel gains against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, ...

The belligerents are the last survivors of Syria’s hugely destructive civil war, which began in 2011 as another Arab Spring revolution, with antigovernment protesters demanding Assad leave.

Syrian forces are battling insurgents just north of the strategic central city of Hama where they are attempting to advance ...

Fierce battles continue in the outskirts of Hama as Syrian opposition fighters advance after capturing much of Aleppo.