Syria’s rebel alliance is edging closer to the capital Damascus, after anti-regime forces swept across the country in a lightning offensive. Follow the latest live news updates here.

Rebel fighters who have taken city after city in a lightning offensive in Syria aim to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad, their Islamist leader said in an interview published on Friday. After ...

In Assad’s abandoned office, his desk and floor were littered with books and papers: a history of the Russian military, a map ...

The Syrian Civil War is a long-running tragedy. Since 2011, more than 500,000 Syrians have died, including more than 200,000 ...

Khalidi, Timour Azhari and Jaida Taha AMMAN/BEIRUT/CAIRO (Reuters) -Syrian rebels said on Sunday that they have ended Bashar ...

Syrian government forces have lost control of Daraa city, a war monitor said, in another stunning blow for President Bashar ...

Across northern and central Syria this week, families who've been torn apart by more than a decade of civil war have been ...

Syria’s government appears to have fallen after opposition fighters said they had entered Damascus following a stunning ...

Assad, who had crushed all forms of dissent, flew out of Damascus for an unknown destination earlier on Sunday ...

Gen. Mazlum Kobani, commander of Kurdish forces in Syria, said recent decisions by the U.S. in Syria potentially “leaves a ...