In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

The Syrian civil war had been relatively quiet in recent ... Reported Control of Terrain in Syria (as of December 8, 2024; map and legend courtesy of the Institute for the Study of War) While many ...

Putin sought to spin events in Syria as a success for Russia, which provided crucial military support for President Bashar al-Assad during the country’s long and brutal civil war, and received ...

A look at a map of the BRI reveals ... and construction contracts in Syria amount to a total of $4.6 billion – all of which were initiated pre-civil war. By contrast, Iran has provided between ...

On Chinese social media, some want Iran to go nuclear – but others think it should learn from China’s “reform and opening.” ...

Assad had leaned on foreign allies since the early days of the civil war. Hezbollah sent fighters ... hard-line Islamists whom the Syrian government had long labeled “terrorists” — they ...

In just two weeks, Syrian rebels have swept from their enclave ... 13 years after the start of the country's civil war. In convoys of small vehicles and motorbikes, fighters led by the rebel ...

HTS was once a part of Al-Nusra Front, which is Syria’s Al-Qaeda branch, and is labeled a terrorist organization ... an end to Syria’s 13-year civil war but left numerous questions about ...

U.S. officials said they pressed the transitional government established by rebels to respect the rights of Syria’s numerous ... descended into a savage civil war. Backed by Russia and Iran ...

For most of the 2010s, you could walk right up to this lush peak, pull up a folding chair and watch the various sides of the Syrian civil ... post-World War I order has left the map of the Middle ...

It’s been almost two weeks since Syria’s dictator, Bashar al-Assad, was ousted. After about 13 years of civil war, this has been ... states that exist on the map, but they are basically ...