The rebels’ rapid advance from their strongholds in northern Syria has seen them take the strategic cities of Aleppo, Hama and Homs, as government forces melted away. Earlier, rebels said they ...

Follow Newsweek's live blog ... in the southern Syrian city of Sweida where rebels took control of its main police station and its biggest civilian prison. The Syrian civil war began in 2011 ...

Experts are returning to Syria’s war-ravaged heritage sites, hoping to lay the groundwork for restoring them and reviving ...

The primary source is the online video that has allowed a widening war to be documented like no ... of Kafranbel in the Idlib region say a Syrian warplane bombed their town, killing dozens of ...

Former members of the Assad regime are still being hunted down across Syria, and the Red Cross estimates that 90% of Syrians ...

Beginning as an Arab Spring protest movement, Syria's civil war has taken on a sectarian character. This week more than 100 members of the president's Alawite sect, a heterodox offshoot of Shiism ...