American officials are wary as they try to persuade the rebels now in control in Syria to govern with an inclusive and ...

The Syrian regime’s collapse came more quickly than the rebels had dreamed — the circumstances were both serendipitous and ...

American diplomats were in Syria for the first time since the U.S. shut its embassy in Damascus in 2012. They met with ...

His mission was to establish Al Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate ... He told PBS in 2021 that he had no desire to wage war against Western nations. In the years that followed, Jolani replaced his ...

Ahmed al-Shara stressed diplomacy in an interview but criticized Israel’s advance into Syrian territory. A statement said to ...

The ongoing Syrian civil war, which began in 2011 ... known as the "Caesar Act," aiming to pressure the Assad regime. May 2021: Assad was re-elected for a fourth term as president of Syria ...

(Omar Haj Kadour/AFP/Getty Images) The Syrian civil war began in 2011 and never really ... collapse of Afghan forces fighting the Taliban in 2021 and of Iraqi forces fighting Islamic State in ...

Syria was home to one of the first ... a former U.S. ambassador for war crimes issues, told 60 Minutes in 2021. "I mean, this is a top down, organized effort. There are documents with his names ...

The comment, in a statement that was published on the Syrian presidency’s Telegram channel and dated 16 December from Moscow, ...

History tells us that where a fragmented coalition of armed groups finds itself in a political vacuum, more violence is ...

and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry hold a news conference in Vienna in 2015 amid frustrated efforts to find a political solution to Syria’s civil war. Brendan Smialowski/Reuters A woman ...

A lightning rebel advance this month ended more than 50 years of Assad family rule, sparking jubilant scenes on the streets ...