Saul Loebmandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Once head of al Qaeda’s branch in Syria, Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani is now the most powerful man in the country. He is leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham ...

Russia already had a decades-long relationship with the Assad government, and had military bases there before the civil war. Russian President Vladimir Putin used his country's presence in Syria, and ...

The ongoing conflict in Syria, characterized by an intricate web of rebel factions and government responses, has significant ...

A number of rebel ... moderate political positions despite his past links to Islamist extremists. Understanding the crisis: Here’s a visual guide to the tangled alliances and rivalries in Syria.

and normal life in Syria," he said in the post on social media. Despite the war, Ukraine is one of the world's top wheat producers. Rebels led by Sharaa's Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS ...

Recently, Al-Sharaa has sought to project a moderate image ... been conscripted into the Syrian armed services. The Syrian National Army, a Turkey-backed umbrella rebel group, worked with other ...

(Bloomberg) -- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has fled Damascus, according to multiple reports, as rebel forces entered ... itself since then as more moderate. Al-Sharaa, in an interview with ...

Assad, backed by Iran and Russia, gradually regained control of more than two-thirds of Syria, leaving the rebels with one stronghold ... to market itself as a more moderate group.

A rapid advance by Syrian rebel groups on the country's capital ... after military actions of self-defense from Israel and Ukraine that had continued with "unflagging" support from the U.S ...