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Byline: Loveday Morris, Mohamad El Chamaa, Susannah George, Suzan Haidamous President Bashar al-Assad's control of Syria's south crumbled on Saturday as rebels seized multiple cities and closed in on Damascus, [...]

Byline: Adam Taylor Amid a rebel offensive that stunned the Syrian regime and led to major losses of territory, the 42-year-old man leading it made a surprising strategic decision: He [...]

Byline: Susannah George, Suzan Haidamous, Mustafa Salim DUBAI - Iran is scrambling to mobilize regional fighters to help prop up Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and has deployed members of Hezbollah [...]

Byline: Susannah George Russia launched airstrikes in support of the Syrian army Monday in an effort to stanch a major rebel advance that surprised and overwhelmed the forces of Syrian [...]

Byline: Louisa Loveluck, Kareem Fahim, Susannah George A lightning advance by insurgents over the past two days in parts of northern and central Syria was the result of better organization [...]

Byline: Ishaan Tharoor Syria's smoldering civil war has roared back onto the world stage. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an Islamist militant group, launched a lightning strike from its northwestern redoubt late [...]

Byline: Alex Horton, Dan Lamothe and Abigail Hauslohner A surge in attacks on deployed U.S. forces has roiled some within the Defense Department, where officials, frustrated by what they consider [...]

Byline: Louisa Loveluck, Kelsey Ables and Leo Sands JERUSALEM - Israel conducted strikes on Syria early Sunday, targeting a military compound and radar and artillery posts after six rockets were [...]

Byline: Louisa Loveluck, Kelsey Ables and Leo Sands JERUSALEM - Israel conducted strikes on Syria early Sunday, targeting a military compound and radar and artillery posts after six rockets were [...]

Byline: Dan Lamothe A one-way attack drone struck a U.S. military position in Syria on Thursday, killing an American contractor, wounding U.S. troops and a second U.S. contractor, and prompting [...]

Byline: Sarah Dadouch and Paulina Villegas - - - Correction: A previous version of the map accompanying this article incorrectly showed subdistricts in the northwest of Syria under control of [...]

Byline: Sarah Dadouch and Paulina Villegas BEIRUT - The earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on Monday brought to the forefront an issue Syria has battled with for years: access [...]

Byline: Sarah Dadouch and Leo Sands Monday's 7.8-magnitude earthquake devastated parts of rebel-held northwestern Syria, its effects compounded by the past decade of bombardment by Syrian government forces in a [...]

Byline: Dan Lamothe American military personnel, together with local forces in Iraq and Syria, killed nearly 700 suspected members of the Islamic State in 2022, officials said Thursday, highlighting an [...]

Byline: Louisa Loveluck BAGHDAD - A U.S.-supported Syrian enclave braced for an assault by Turkish forces as the area's top commander called on Washington to do more to prevent a [...]

Byline: Louisa Loveluck BAGHDAD - A U.S.-supported Syrian enclave braced for attacks by Turkish forces as its top commander called on Washington to do more to oppose the threatened ground [...]

Byline: Karoun Demirjian The U.S. military announced on Thursday that it had conducted two raids in Syria within a day of each other, killing two key ISIS targets and their [...]

Byline: Rachel Pannett and Louisa Loveluck The U.S. military said it conducted airstrikes in Syria on Tuesday, targeting infrastructure used by groups with ties to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. [...]

Byline: Sarah Dadouch BEIRUT - At least 10 people were killed in Syria overnight and this morning, following Israeli strikes on the capital in the south and Russian strikes in [...]

Byline: Karoun Demirjian DUSHANBE, Tajikistan - An Islamic State bomb maker who became one of the terrorist organization's most influential figures in Syria was seized during a raid Thursday, according [...]

Byline: Rachel Weiner and Justin Jouvenal Syria's civil war was raging in March 2013 when black vehicles cut off an Italian aide worker's car in the north of the country. [...]

Byline: Omar Nezhat, Sarah Dadouch, Kareem Fahim and Joyce Sohyun Lee ATMA, Syria - At least five children were killed during a raid by U.S. commandos last week on the [...]

Byline: Dan Lamothe, Kareem Fahim and Sarah Dadouch U.S. troops carried out a harrowing raid in northwest Syria that led the Islamic State's top leader to kill himself and his [...]

Byline: Dan Lamothe, Kareem Fahim and Sarah Dadouch U.S. troops carried out a dramatic raid in northwest Syria that led the Islamic State's top leader to kill himself and his [...]

Byline: Sarah Dadouch, Kareem Fahim, Sarah Dadouch, Kareem Fahim and Dan Lamothe BEIRUT - President Joe Biden said Thursday that a U.S. Special Operations forces counterterrorism mission overnight in northwestern [...]

Byline: Sarah Dadouch, Kareem Fahim, Dan Lamothe and John Wagner BEIRUT - President Joe Biden declared that 'this horrible terrorist leader is no more' as he spoke to the nation [...]

Byline: Sarah Dadouch and Kareem Fahim BEIRUT - U.S. Special Operations forces conducted a counterterrorism mission overnight in northwestern Syria, the Pentagon said early Thursday in a statement that did [...]

Byline: Sarah Dadouch BEIRUT - When the Syrian military opened offices in the eastern province of Deir al-Zour last month to enlist former rebels and repentant army defectors, almost no [...]

Byline: Alex Horton A spate of attacks this week on bases housing U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria were probably conducted by Iran-backed militias, the Pentagon said Wednesday, stopping short [...]

Byline: Kareem Fahim IDLIB, Syria - The Islamist militants attacked the radio station for years, because it played music, because it hired women, because its liberal values posed a challenge [...]

Byline: Karoun Demirjian and Alex Horton The Pentagon will conduct an investigation into a 2019 airstrike in Syria that killed dozens, including women and children, during the final days of [...]

Byline: Liz Sly Iran appears to have been responsible for a drone attack on a U.S. outpost in Syria, suggesting that a new front could be opening in the low-level [...]

Byline: Dan Lamothe The U.S. military carried out an airstrike on a senior al-Qaida leader in Syria along the Turkish border in an operation that will disrupt the terrorist organization's [...]

Byline: Dan Lamothe WASHINGTON - U.S. troops in Syria were targeted on Wednesday in a 'deliberate and coordinated attack' that appears to have used both unmanned aircraft and indirect fire, [...]

Byline: Louisa Loveluck HASAKAH, Syria - As U.S. forces withdrew from Afghanistan, precipitating the chaotic collapse of its government, another American ally watched warily and hoped that its fate will [...]

Byline: Karen DeYoung and Kareem Fahim The U.N. Security Council on Friday unanimously agreed to a last-minute compromise that will allow humanitarian aid to continue flowing into Syria across the [...]

Byline: Karen DeYoung and Kareem Fahim The U.N. Security Council on Friday unanimously agreed to a last-minute compromise that will allow humanitarian aid to continue flowing into Syria across the [...]

Byline: Alex Horton U.S. forces launched airstrikes on facilities on both sides of the Iraq-Syria border, the Pentagon said Sunday, in response to drone attacks on U.S. troops in the [...]

Byline: Alex Horton U.S. forces launched airstrikes on facilities on both sides of the Iraq-Syria border, the Pentagon said Sunday, in response to recent drone attacks on U.S. troops in [...]

Byline: Josh Rogin For Print Use Only. In February 2011, speaking at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, then-Vice President Joe Biden pledged to support people around the world who were [...]

Byline: Missy Ryan WASHINGTON - The Biden administration conducted an airstrike against alleged Iranian-linked fighters in Syria on Thursday, signaling its intent to push back against violence believed to be [...]

Byline: Sarah Dadouch BEIRUT - Israeli warplanes struck eastern Syria overnight on Wednesday, Syria's state-run news agency said, hitting targets that a local monitoring group said included Iranian military positions [...]

Byline: Amanda Sloat A strikingly bipartisan array of politicians slammed President Donald Trump for his surprise announcement that he would withdraw U.S. forces from Syria's border with Turkey - removing [...]

Byline: Karen DeYoung Newly-limited humanitarian aid will continue flowing to northwest Syria under a U.N. Security Council Resolution passed Saturday that appeared to satisfy no council member and led to [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick An international watchdog on Thursday set a 90-day deadline for Syria to come clean about chemical weapons it kept hidden after claiming it had surrendered its entire [...]

Byline: Kareem Fahim and Zakaria Zakaria The Syrian fighter was a teenager when he joined his first militia and a veteran of two armed groups by age 25, a close [...]

Byline: Liz Sly and Asser Khattab BEIRUT -A rift at the highest levels of Syria's ruling Assad family erupted into the open Thursday as President Bashar al-Assad's powerful cousin appeared [...]

Byline: Isabelle Khurshudyan MOSCOW - A day after an attempted coup against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2016, he received a supportive phone call from a surprising source. Russian [...]

Byline: Ruth Eglash and Hazem Balousha JERUSALEM - Israeli military jets targeted sites in Gaza and Syria linked to Palestinian Islamic Jihad on Sunday night, hours after militants from the [...]

Byline: Kareem Fahim IDLIB, Syria -- Maher Shardan and his neighbors spent a recent afternoon perched on a ridge, at a popular spot that looked out on lush farms, towns [...]