The UN's cultural organisation added Aleppo's famous soap to its intangible cultural heritage list Tuesday with Syria's ...

Analysis: With thousands having already fled the rebel offensive in Aleppo and surrounding areas, Syrian Kurds fear for their ...

The rebels have set their sights on an area where President Bashar al-Assad’s government has long maintained strength.

With Syrian rebels only 50 miles away, Russia has evacuated all its warships from Tartus, its only naval base in the ...

The rebel advance in northwest Syria has highlighted the Assad regime's weaknesses. But military gains remain vulnerable to erosion, says Fadel Abdulghany.

Syrian forces are battling insurgents just north of the strategic central city of Hama where they are attempting to advance ...

Syrian government forces launched a counterattack against Islamist-led rebels around the key city of Hama on Wednesday after ...

Even as Israel bombarded Syria, officials say the U.S. and Gulf countries were working to weaken its president’s alliance ...

The army of President Bashar al-Assad has launched a counteroffensive following the rapid advance of an Islamist insurgent ...

Since the Syrian civil war began, around 2012, approximately 6.9 million people have been internally displaced, and an additional 6.8 million are refugees, mainly in Turkey and Jordan — and Lebanon, ...

The Middle East is today more repressive than it was in 2010. The authoritarian regimes that have emerged since 2011 have ...

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has expressed alarm over increased civilian casualties in ...