The longtime enemies have opened contacts, reflecting a power shift across a Middle East in which they have newfound common ...

Leaders and managers must understand the complexity of armed conflicts to make responsible and ethical choices ...

The United States government has revoked its designation of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham as a foreign terrorist organization, seven ...

The United States must press the Syrian Transitional Government to bring the perpetrators of the Saint Elias Church attack to ...

A pro-Assad uprising in early March in Syria’s coastal regions was the first test of the country's tenuous unity.

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at ongoing civil war in Syria. Facts Bashar al-Assad ruled Syria as president from July 2000-December 2024. His father, Hafez al-Assad, ruled Syria ...

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at ongoing civil war in Syria. Facts Bashar al-Assad ruled Syria as president from July 2000-December 2024. His father, Hafez al-Assad, ruled Syria ...

Syria's 14-year civil war has undergone yet another rapid series of shifts, with violence sweeping the west coast homeland of deposed President Bashar al-Assad's minority Alawite Muslim sect and ...

The Syrian Civil War would be frozen in place for the next four years. In this Feb. 26, 2016 file photo, a Syrian boy rides a bicycle through a devastated part of the old city of Homs, Syria.

In early December, an offensive led by the Syrian rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, toppled the brutal, dictatorial regime of the Assad family, which had controlled Syria for 54 years.

There no longer is any excuse for U.S. involvement in Syria. The Arab Spring hit Syria in 2011 as demonstrations broke out against Assad, who responded violently, yielding a multi-sided civil war.

As Syria’s new leaders consolidate control and merge rebel factions under the auspices of the country’s defense department, the reins of which they seized from ousted President Bashar al-Assad ...