The war between Assad and his foreign backers and the array of armed opposition forces seeking his overthrow has killed an estimated half-million people over the past 13 years. Elsewhere, Syrian authorities said their counteroffensive pushed back insurgents attempting to advance to the strategic ce...
Multiple media outlets have reported that al-Assad has left the country, citing rebel forces. Xinhua reporters in Damascus witnessed intense gunshots reverberating through the streets with heavy traffic caused by cars departing the capital. Civilians took to the streets, waving the "revolution flag,"...
As long as the regime would keep control over the armed forces and the intelligence services (mukhabarat), the president’s power would be ensured, and it would be relatively easy to share half or more of the ministerial posts with others, and to get used to a type of wider based regime...
As long as the regime would keep control over the armed forces and the intelligence services (mukhabarat), the president’s power would be ensured, and it would be relatively easy to share half or more of the ministerial posts with others, and to get used to a type of wider based regime...
The Syrian military command said militants had attacked in large numbers and from multiple directions, prompting "our armed forces to carry out a redeployment operation aimed at strengthening the defence lines in order to absorb the attack, preserve the lives of civilians and soldier...
whose forces responded with violent crackdowns. The conflict gradually morphed from popular protests to an armed rebellion after months of military sieges. The armed opposition consists of various groups that were formed during the course of the conflict, including the Free Syrian Army and the Islami...
The TV said the army raised the Syrian flag over Nasib crossing, which is located on the outskirts of a town bearing the same name in the southeastern countryside of Daraa. The army is combing the area around the border crossing and removing the explosive devices left by rebels, it added....
Subscribe Now An Arab official, who did not want to be named, said insurgent attacks on loyalist forces rose sharply in the last 10 days, although the army remains largely cohesive. Syrian authorities blame "armed terrorist groups" for the unrest, and say they have killed 1,100 army and po...
FILE PHOTO: A Kurdish demonstrator holds a flag during a protest demanding the release of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan, in Sulaimaniyah, Iraq February 16, 2018. REUTERS/Ako Rasheed/File Photo (Reuters) - Abdullah Ocalan, the Kurdish militant leader jailed...
At least two of the men appear to be armed and wearing body armor. Before the camera pans across the facade of the government building — emblazoned with the former Syrian regime flag — an armored vehicle and two additional trucks can be seen. The city is the capital of the governorate...