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Bashar al-Assad, the son of a tyrant, fit right in. He ruled over Syria with an iron fist for more than two decades, ruthlessly cracking down on political opposition. When a pro-democracy movement ...

A French court on Friday convicted two friends of the jihadist who beheaded a French history and geography teacher of ...

At least five people were killed, and 30 others injured, as airstrikes hit Idlib, Syria, on December 2, Syria Civil Defense said. They said the injured included 11 children and nine women.

Syrian and Russian jets have ramped up air raids on Idlib and Aleppo as the government of President Bashar al-Assad tries to slow the advance of opposition fighters. The raids followed big gains ...

Syrian opposition forces said they had captured the city of Maraat Al-Numan, south of Idlib city, putting the whole of Idlib province under opposition control, two opposition sources told Reuters ...

The Syrian army, backed by Russia’s Aerospace Forces, wiped out over 400 militants from the Jabhat al-Nusra group who attacked the positions of government troops in the provinces of Aleppo and Idlib, ...

Syrian opposition insurgency launched a campaign on Wednesday with a two-pronged attack on Aleppo and the countryside around Idlib. More Ghaith Alsayed/AP Approximately 200 Iraqi militiamen ...