(AP Photo/Mosa’ab Elshamy) Ammunition that belonged to the the Assad government sits in a pile at a military headquarters, in ...

First came reports that the multi-million dollar effort to train “moderate” Syrian rebels had yielded only ... followed by Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine and annexation of Crimea.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan says Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Jordan will come together to fight the remnants of the ...

There was no way the rebels could go ahead without first notifying Turkey, which has been a main backer of the Syrian opposition ... has tried to moderate its image, while running a quasi-state ...

Former rebels now controlling Syria name an interim president and throw out the constitution adopted under Assad, saying a ...

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 ...

Since Islamist rebels overthrew the Assad dictatorship in Syria, Egypt, with parallels in ... by the successive shocks of the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. But the problems are also rooted in ...

After the Taliban seized Kabul, Afghanistan staggered under the weight of sanctions and other kinds of economic and diplomatic isolation. Other governments failed to act with sufficient speed and ...

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.

The leader of the former rebel group that toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad has been named the country’s interim ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — The Syrian factions that toppled President Bashar Assad last month named an Islamist former rebel leader as the country‘s interim president on Wednesday in a push to project ...