Atrocities by the Syrian government "far outweigh" crimes by the opposition fighters and Syrian President al-Bashar Assad's regime is "mostly responsible" for the human rights offences in the ...

DAMASCUS—Syria’s new leaders have to figure out what to do with thousands of foreign fighters in their ranks, whom many in the country fear and suspect were involved in a recent wave of ethnic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Syrian army personnel gather as they head towards Latakia to join the fight against the fighters linked to Syria Syrian officials ...

During the height of the Syrian Civil War, armed groups operating with limited resources began building crude but powerful ...

AMMAN/BEIRUT: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad flew out of Damascus for an unknown destination on Sunday (Dec 8), two senior army officers told Reuters, as rebels said they had entered the capital ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - A powerful jihadist group has crushed a Free Syrian Army rebel faction in northwestern Syria, in an attack that threatens to deal a critical blow to the more moderate wing of the ...

BEIRUT, Jan 24 - Heavy fighting erupted in northwestern Syria on Tuesday between a powerful jihadist organization and more moderate rebel groups, threatening to further weaken the opposition to ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Less than 100 rebel fighters are currently being trained by the US military to combat Isis in Syria, the Pentagon has ...

FILE - This Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009 file photo shows Syrian President Bashar Assad, seen, during a meeting with his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, unseen, at the presidency in Tehran, Iran.

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. BEIRUT - Dozens of air strikes and shelling hit parts of the last swathe of Syrian territory still held ...

A Syrian town on the border with Turkey has been captured from the Free Syrian Army — not by forces loyal to the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, but by Islamist rebels backed by al-Qaeda. The ...