The Middle East is today more repressive than it was in 2010. The authoritarian regimes that have emerged since 2011 have ...

Intense airstrikes overnight drove Syrian rebels back from the edge of Hama, a major city whose fall would pile pressure on ...

Syria state media say government troops are battling insurgents inside the country’s largest city Aleppo for the first time ...

Aleppo had been slowly recovering from the wounds inflicted by more than a decade of civil war when forces loyal to Syria's ...

Syrian Kurds fled Tel Rifaat in northern Aleppo Governorate in large numbers on Tuesday after Turkish-backed rebels seized it ...

Oil prices firmed on Wednesday as market participants weighed up geopolitical tensions and the prospect of OPEC+ extending ...

Syrian rebel forces arrived at the gates of the key city of Hama on Tuesday, as their fighting with the military sparked “a ...

Tensions continue to rise across West Asia as ceasefire violations in Lebanon, escalating fighting in Syria, and the ongoing ...

Images shared on social media have illustrated the anger that Syrian rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad feel toward ...

The rebel groups fighting in Syria’s 13-year-long war are a complex patchwork of fighters, focused on battling against ...

FRONTLINE has been covering the war since it began in 2011, tracing its origins and evolution, its impact on the country’s people, and how the U.S. has responded.

A historian explains why U.S. sanctions and Iran and Russia’s entanglements in other wars helped create an opening for rebel ...