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.

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The US and NATO-backed war for regime change in Syria, launched in 2011, has been revived. Turkey, Syria’s northern neighbour ...

Hezbollah leaving Assad’s territory has made his regime vulnerable, enabling significant gains by Syrian opposition, though ...

The spokesperson went on to to call the Syrian rebels 'terrorists', in a statement echoing regime leader Bashar al-Assad ...

The Syrian civil war has reignited after four years of docility, with five main players deciding the course of events.

Insurgents led by the Islamist rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham along with Turkey-backed opposition fighters were about 10 ...

Insurgents have breached Syria’s second-largest city, Aleppo, and were clashing with government forces on the city's western edge on Friday, according to a Syria war monitor and fighters ...

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

Syrian opposition activists say insurgents have captured four new towns, bringing them closer to the central city of Hama.

The Islamist group, which spearheaded of the surprise rebel advance into Aleppo, is an offshoot of al-Qaida in Syria.

Iran and Russia, both stretched by conflicts of their own, have experienced setbacks in Syria after a rebel offensive in the ...