BEIRUT — Syrian government troops on Thursday flushed out rebels who had stormed a prison compound in the northern city of Aleppo in a bid to fr...

BEIRUT — Rebel fighters battled regime troops inside the walls of the sprawling central prison compound in Syria's largest city Wednesday, hours...

My family left Syria in late 1967 after nationalization started taking place and moved to Detroit. It's really hard for me to wrap my head around what is going on in my homeland. People often ask me how I feel about Syria, and frankly, it confuses me.

I am resigned to having the U.S. remain color blind to red lines, largely because the options for credible retaliation are so wretchedly unpalatable. We will be hearing in the coming days about lots of options... until they are exposed to the cold, cruel light of day.

It's the sixth year since I traveled down the Levant from Turkey to Israel following the paths of the ancient trade routes. Today, Aleppo and Damascus are the hottest flash points in the ongoing civil war.

BEIRUT — The 11th-century minaret of a famed mosque that towered over the narrow stone alleyways of Aleppo's old quarter collapsed Wednesday as ...

Mohammed has just left court and proudly displays a document, complete with official seal, attesting to his ownership of a shop in Syria's northern ci...

(Aleppo) - The Syrian Air Force has repeatedly carried out indiscriminate, and in some cases deliberate, air strikes against civilians. These attacks ...

n a region which is no stranger to ironic twists, however, it should come as no surprise that this long-persecuted ethnic group has emerged as a kingmaker in a battle which will undoubtedly shape the face of the region for years to come.

BEIRUT — After weeks of rebel gains in the south, the Syrian regime launched a counteroffensive on Sunday with widespread airstrikes and an oper...

BEIRUT — A Syrian government airstrike on a heavily contested neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo on Saturday killed at least 15 people,...

BEIRUT — Syrian rebels pushed into a strategic neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo after days of heavy clashes, seizing control of at le...

It's a picture that is both haunting and heartbreaking. Dressed in red, an 8-year-old Syrian boy identified as Ahmed stares into the camera of Amer...

In the past four months, 12-year-old Mohamed Asaf has made the Dar al-Shifa clinic in Syria's Aleppo his home. The boy is a tireless aid to the few do...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Iran and Syria condemned a U.S. plan to assist rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad on Saturday and signaled the ...

BEIRUT -- Syrian government forces fought fierce clashes with rebels attacking a police academy near the northern city of Aleppo on Friday, while the ...

Rebels seized control of the Umayyad Mosque in Syria's second city of Aleppo on Thursday after days of fierce clashes that damaged the historic buildi...

BEIRUT — Syrian warplanes carried out airstrikes on rebels trying to storm a police academy outside Aleppo on Wednesday, activists said, while j...

It is hard to imagine a Syria without bombed cities, deserted streets, downed helicopters, or RPGs. Yet these incredible photos published by LIFE maga...

(Kilis) – The Syrian government launched at least four ballistic missiles that struck populated areas in the city of Aleppo and a town in Aleppo...

BEIRUT — Rebels backed by captured tanks launched a fresh offensive on a government complex housing a police academy near the northern city of A...

BEIRUT — The battle for Syria's second-largest airport intensified Saturday as government troops tried to reverse recent strategic gains the reb...

In 2011, when Robert Ford was Ambassador to Syria and still living in Damascus, he often took to the embassy's Facebook page to deliver blunt messages...