Syria's long civil war has reclaimed global attention after insurgents seized most of its largest city and dozens of nearby ...

Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations on Tuesday accused Ukrainian intelligence services of aiding group fighting Syrian ...

The rapid and sudden push south by anti-regime forces in Syria has caused a geopolitical quake throughout the region. The ...

"Today, as a result of your awkward actions, we saw how a meeting on an extremely serious issue can be turned into a disgraceful political farce, by inviting a totally unsuitable speaker and playing ...

U.S. forces attacked and destroyed several weapons that fired rockets and mortars near a U.S.-led coalition base in eastern ...

Russia and the United States clashed at the United Nations on Tuesday, accusing each other of supporting terrorism during a Security Council meeting convened over a sudden escalation of fighting in ...

Russia began evacuating ships from the naval base in Tartus, Syria, following the swift advance of Islamist rebels in the ...

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The rebel groups fighting in Syria’s 13-year-long war are a complex patchwork of fighters, focused on battling against ...

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

CAIRO, December 3. /TASS/. Iraq sent units of armored forces to the border with Syria as a reinforcement to its troops in the area, Iraqi military spokesman Yahya Rasul said. "As one of the measures ...

Islamist-led rebels are pressing a major offensive in northern Syria in which they seized the second city Aleppo from the government for the first time since civil war erupted in 2011.