ISTANBUL/BEIRUT: Brothers Abu Eliyas and Abu Yousef have fought at completely opposite ends of the insurgency against Syrian President Bashar Assad. One is a...
BEIRUT: President Bashar Assad’s path to a final victory in the war in Syria is strewn with diplomatic land mines that will complicate his attempt to...
BEIRUT: Lebanon must seek a deal with Syria so Lebanese exporters can reach wider Middle East markets via the Syrian border with Jordan now that Damascus has...
BEIRUT: Hezbollah is helping to lead a Russian-backed offensive in southern Syria, pro-Damascus sources said, exposing the limits of U.S. policy that hopes...
BEIRUT: Syria’s war is reaching a point where President Bashar Assad will not be able to win back much more territory without risking conflicts with foreign...
ALEPPO, Syria/ BEIRUT: Syria’s U.S.-backed Kurds are getting indirect help from an unlikely source in their war against Turkey in the northwestern region of...
BEIRUT: With Daesh (ISIS) near defeat in Syria, Damascus is setting its sights on territory held by Kurdish-led forces including eastern oil fields, risking a...
BEIRUT: Syrian and Iraqi forces closing in on the last scraps of the Daesh (ISIS) caliphate straddling the remote border area between the two countries have...
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Central Bank has the foreign-currency reserves it needs to keep the pound stable against the U.S. dollar at its pegged rate for the...
RAQQA, Syria/BEIRUT: Kurdish groups who led the fight against Daesh (ISIS) in its former capital Raqqa must navigate a complex peace to avoid ethnic tension...
ISTANBUL/BEIRUT: Turkey is luring militants away from the militant alliance that controls Syria’s northwestern Idlib province as a step toward implementing a...
BEIRUT: U.S.-backed Syrian militias will not let government forces cross the Euphrates River in their bid to recover eastern Syria, setting a red line for...
BEIRUT/AMMAN: Syria’s war has entered a new phase as President Bashar Assad extends his grip in areas being captured from Daesh (ISIS), using firepower...
BEIRUT: When Abu Ahmad stepped out of his house in Raqqa after a night of heavy airstrikes, he found several of his neighbors lying dead in the street. “I...
BEIRUT / AMMAN / BAGHDAD: Syrian rebels say the United States and its allies are sending them more arms to try to fend off a new push into the southeast by...
BEIRUT: A U.S. cruise missile attack on a Syrian air base may persuade President Bashar Assad to be more cautious with some of his tactics, but will not deter...
BEIRUT: The Syrian army jet that hit the town of Khan Sheikhoun at dawn dropped three conventional bombs and a fourth one that made little sound at impact but...
BEIRUT: The head of the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said a U.S.-backed assault to drive Daesh (ISIS) from its de facto capital Raqqa would begin at the start...
BEIRUT/AMUDA, Syria: The Kurdish-led administration in northeastern Syria says a new land corridor to the government-controlled west marks an economic...
BEIRUT/AMMAN: Syrian President Bashar Assad’s opponents appear more divided than ever as they prepare for peace talks next week, demoralized by their defeat...
DAMASCUS: Syria is prepared for “open battle” against insurgents in the province where Damascus has been allowing them to gather under cease-fire deals, said...
BEIRUT: Syrian Kurdish groups and their allies are expected to approve a blueprint for a system of federal government in northern Syria this week, Kurdish...
BEIRUT/AMMAN/GENEVA: When rebel fighters launched a last desperate attempt to break the siege of Aleppo in October, they were beaten back – not by the Syrian...
BEIRUT/AMMAN: As the Syrian government and its allies prepared to ramp up their attack on Aleppo in November, one of the rebel groups defending the...
BEIRUT/AMMAN: On the eve of Donald Trump’s election victory, members of a Western-backed Syrian rebel group met U.S. officials to ask about the outlook for...