The Syrian regime and rebel groups have been fighting in Syria for more than a decade, with millions fleeing the country.
"With Russia taking so many forces away from Syria to bolster their special military operation in Ukraine, it left Assad exposed and the rebels have really taken advantage of it." What other nations have interests in Syria? The assault had raised the prospect of another front reopening in the...
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"The rapid collapse of the Assad regime in Damascus will have repercussions well beyond Syria. The great losers are Iran and Russia, without whose support Assad would have lost the almost 14-year civil war long ago," Holger Schmieding, chief economist at Berenberg Bank, said in analysis Monda...
The United States is scrambling to quell attacks by a range of armed groups that are allied to Iran and to each other. They are: — Hamas in Gaza; — powerful Hezbollah, the dominant force in Lebanon; — smaller militias in Iraq and Syria; — Houthis in the poor Arabian penin...
He said he was detained while on a Christian pilgrimage that led him from Hungary to Lebanon, where he eventually crossed into Syria on foot illegally. He was taken captive while the nation was under the rule of President Bashar Assad but freed when rebels overtook the city of Damascus. Earl...
The U.S. and U.K. missile launch on Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen was the culmination of weeks of warnings for the group to cease their attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea.
The insurgent group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, that took over Syria and ousted President Bashar al-Assad, has yet to show how it plans to govern the country torn by more than a decade of civil war. CBS News contributor Sam Vinograd breaks down what�
groups the combatants into four broad categories: rebels (from “moderate” to Islamist); loyalists (regime forces and their supporters); Kurdish groups (whoaren’t currently seekingto overthrow Assad, but have won autonomy in northeastern Syria, which they have fought ISIS to protect); and fina...
“People who fear Islamic governance either have seen incorrect implementations of it or do not understand it properly,” and he tried to reassure Syria’s minority Alawites and Christians by saying, “These sects have coexisted in this region for hundreds of...