Dozens of Syrian soldiers have been killed in fierce battles in Aleppo and Idlib in the past few days, the military has said. Russia, one of Mr Assad's key allies, has promised Damascus extra ...

Ben Hubbard and Raja Abdulrahim Reporting from Damascus and Idlib, Syria The Russian military appeared to be packing up equipment at one of its most critical bases in Syria on Friday, in what ...

Qamishli (Syria) (AFP) – Kurdish authorities have made overtures to Islamist-led rebels who seized power in Syria last week, but the long-oppressed community fears it could lose hard-won gains ...

An American man who said he illegally entered Syria on foot from Lebanon as part of a Christian pilgrimage and then spent about seven months in a Damascus prison, spoke to members of the media on ...

THERE WAS joy and horror and anguish all at once. Many of the detainees freed from Saidnaya, the most notorious prison in Syria, were husks: skeletal frames, vacant stares. They staggered out of ...

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Despite those designations, Turkey has provided indirect assistance to HTS. The Turkish military presence in the northwestern Syrian town of Idlib largely shielded the group from attacks by Syrian ...

Syria’s new transitional prime minister Mohammad al-Bashir on Tuesday said it was time for “stability and calm” in the country, two days after longtime president Bashar al-Assad was toppled ...

Sir Keir Starmer has said it is "too early" to decide whether to remove a leading Syrian rebel group from the government's proscribed terrorist list following its victory over Bashar al Assad's ...

In the last week, fighters from the rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham — a former Al-Qaeda affiliate known as the Nusra Front — have made significant gains in the Idlib region, even as Syrian ...

The surprise offensive, which erupted out of the rebel-held province of Idlib last week, has posed the most serious challenge to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government in years.