The belligerents are the last survivors of Syria’s hugely destructive civil war, which began in 2011 as another Arab Spring revolution, with antigovernment protesters demanding Assad leave.

An advanced Russian air defense radar system is among the equipment captured by anti-regime forces in Syria as they continue ...

President Putin’s fledgling Mediterranean flotilla may have to retreat to ports in Libya and Algeria or to the Baltic.

Russia began evacuating ships from the naval base in Tartus, Syria, following the swift advance of Islamist rebels in the ...

LONDON -- I was in Aleppo, Syria, with rebel fighters when they first entered the city in 2012. It was the full bloom of what ...

Russian navy ships have been spotted leaving the Kremlin’s crucial seaport in the Mediterranean as the renewed Syrian civil ...

But Russia’s commitment to Syria has not actually wavered, and Russia is not really distracted. The advance of Syria’s rebels ...

For years, American policymakers have grappled with how to manage the Middle East’s shifting alliances and conflicts while ...

As rebels make progress in their fight against Assad's government, Newsweek has mapped the regional approach to the conflict.

Syria’s rebels seized most of Aleppo on Saturday as their sweeping advance ousted Russian forces from at least three military ...

Time and time again the Assad dynasty has survived internal and external challenges and lived to fight another day. But ...