Up to 10,000 fighters lent muscle during the overthrow of the Assad regime. But their hard-line interpretations of Sunni ...

The area was working-class, home to 2m people ... successfully gained a foothold in Syria and grabbed a third of it for itself. The regime besieged rebel-held areas, starved civilians and bombed ...

The new government has pledged to unify Syria after overthrowing the Assad dictatorship. One of its biggest challenges is ...

Nema — better known by his nom-de-guerre of Islam Alloush — has been charged with complicity in war crimes between 2013 and 2016, when he was spokesman for a Syrian Islamist rebel group called ...

The casualties from clashes this week rose sharply as the tensions moved closer to a major southern region controlled by the ...

Syrian opposition fighters passed ... President Bashar al-Assad's defense, smoothing the rebels’ path as they took the cities of Hama and Homs and then entered the capital, Damascus, saying ...

A State Department spokesperson confirmed Washington had received a response from Syrian authorities to a U.S. request for them to take "specific ... that non-Syrian rebels who helped oust ...

A handout satellite image shows the Saydnaya prison in Syria. (AFP/Getty Images) Syrian rebels released hundreds of detainees from a prison dubbed the “human slaughterhouse” after seizing the ...

Syrian estate agent Fahd Haidar shuttered his business and got out his rifle to defend his hometown of Jaramana when it came ...

Paris (AFP) – A Syrian Islamist rebel ex-spokesman went on trial in France on Tuesday under the principle of universal jurisdiction, accused of complicity in war crimes during Syria's civil war.

Unknown individuals have reportedly exhumed the remains of former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad ... In December, shortly after the rebels, led by the Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) militant group ...

A Syrian accused of war crimes during the Syrian civil war has gone on trial in France. The case is one of many in Europe, as Syrians have sought justice for war crimes committed during the 14 ...