MIDDLE Eastern leaders and their Western allies have long warned that Islamic State (IS) could exploit the fall of the Assad ...

Ukraine is boosting ties with Africa by offering military training, aiding refugees, and countering Russian influence through ...

Revenge attacks against deposed president Assad’s heterodox Alawite sect led local evangelicals to model reconciliation ...

AT LEAST 25 people were killed and 63 wounded as a suicide bomber opened fire at worshippers in a Greek Orthodox church in ...

Areas within the Idlib province are still being developed, Abu Tarek explains, and, unlike under the Assad regime, it’s ...

Syrian farmers hoped for some reprieve after Islamist rebels ended Assad' 24 years of autocratic rule in December, but a devastating drought and continued water theft mean their crops are still dying, ...

Key members of the 'Axis of Resistance' have so far avoided direct involvement in the latest regional flare-up, due to ...

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Aleppo: Rebels 'take control' of airport as thousands of fighters seize most of Syria's second-biggest city Opposition fighters entered the country's second-largest city on Friday where they ...

The rebels who are now Syria’s de facto rulers have started to make their mark on the country’s government. They took control of Aleppo just two weeks ago, but already police officers are in ...

But, he said, the regime's weakness was the deciding factor. "After they lost Aleppo like that, regime forces never recovered and the more the rebels advanced, the weaker Assad’s army got," he said.

Rebels led by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) captured Aleppo last week in a lightning offensive against President Bashar al-Assad's forces, raising fears in Syria's second-largest city.