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 ...

A Syrian war monitor says the death toll rises to more than 600 in recent violence.

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 ...

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

Armed men loyal to the Syrian government carried out field executions and spoke of purifying the country, according to ...