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

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

“We don’t take an eye for an eye ... of deadly sectarian violence in Syria, where fears among minorities have been swelling since Islamist-led rebels ousted Assad from power in December ...

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 ...

On Dec. 8, after nearly 54 years in power and 13 years of war, the Syrian civil war came to an end. And with it, the fall of the Assad family’s rule. For many Syrian students who call the University ...

The Islamist-led rebels were at the gates of Syria's Homs, a war monitor said, after wresting other key cities from government control. In little over a week, the offensive has seen Syria's second ...

In an interview with The New York Times, President Ahmed al-Shara urged the United States to lift sanctions and alluded to ...

Vilified by the Assad regime, these Nobel-nominated first responders operated only in rebel areas. Now their founder is in ...

ISTANBUL — Israeli strikes in Syria ... appears to take aim at Turkish interests in Syria. Israel struck several targets on Wednesday night, including military bases in Hama and Homs in western ...

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 ...

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani has attended a U_N_ Security Council briefing, raising his country’s new flag at the ...