Hundreds of US forces are deployed in eastern Syria, some near the Euphrates River Valley, which is of key importance.

Iran’s army chief Major General Mohammad Bagheri alleged Israel and the United States plot behind the recent surge in rebel ...

With Syrian rebels only 50 miles away, Russia has evacuated all its warships from Tartus, its only naval base in the ...

The rebel advance in northwest Syria has highlighted the Assad regime's weaknesses. But military gains remain vulnerable to erosion, says Fadel Abdulghany.

Syrian government forces launched a counterattack against Islamist-led rebels around the key city of Hama on Wednesday after ...

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

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

Since the Syrian civil war began, around 2012, approximately 6.9 million people have been internally displaced, and an additional 6.8 million are refugees, mainly in Turkey and Jordan — and Lebanon, ...

The Middle East is today more repressive than it was in 2010. The authoritarian regimes that have emerged since 2011 have ...

In the Levant, Syria’s smoldering civil war flared up, with an apparently reformed Islamist terrorist organization retaking the northern city of Aleppo. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, surprised even ...

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

Syria state media say government troops are battling insurgents inside the country’s largest city Aleppo for the first time ...