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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, [...]

In just over a week, Syrian rebel forces have seized much of Syria's northwest from the government in a fast-moving attack, upending the once-stagnant civil war. After capturing most of [...]

The stunningly successful offensive by Syrian rebels last week accomplished what years of bloodshed by larger factions could not. Within four days, the rebel group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, captured much [...]

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 [...]

Militants stormed out of their stronghold in Idlib Province last week, seizing parts of the nation's largest city. A Times reporter puts the surprise attack in context. Times Insider explains [...]

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 [...]

In just a few days, a patchwork of rebel forces has seized control of a broad stretch of land in the west and northwest of Syria. But it's unclear just [...]

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 [...]

M2 PRESSWIRE-September 26, 2024-: Lebanon escalation: UN boosts support at border with Syria (C)1994-2024 M2 COMMUNICATIONS RDATE:26092024 'Hundreds of vehicles are backed up in queues at the Syrian border; many [...]

The scale and ferocity of the conflict in Gaza and the unspeakable suffering of its civilians have rightly provoked the world's outrage. But in Syria, a steep escalation of violence [...]

The strikes, in response to a drone attack that killed three U.S. soldiers in Jordan this week, were a sharp escalation of hostilities in the Middle East. The United States [...]

After Iran-aligned militants killed three American soldiers, Iran's leaders sensed a line was crossed, and are sending more conciliatory signals while awaiting President Biden's promised response. Iran's Supreme National Security [...]

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 [...]

The nearly eight-year-old American mission in the country has taken a back burner recently, but the Pentagon's top general, in a rare visit, says it remains worth the risk. NORTHEAST [...]

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 [...]

Turkish officials said the airstrikes were a counterterrorism operation against militants it accused of bombing Istanbul last week. ISTANBUL -- Turkish fighter jets carried out dozens of airstrikes in northern [...]

Moscow withdrew a key air defense system and some troops to bolster its war in Ukraine, officials said, potentially altering Israel's calculations about striking Syria or arming Ukraine. JERUSALEM -- [...]

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 [...]

Two strikes on U.S. military sites have been tied to forces aligned with Iran, raising tensions just as Washington appears close to striking a new nuclear deal with Tehran. Militias [...]

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. [...]

''We feel for them and say, may God be with you,'' said one Syrian who endured hunger and cold when his own government, backed by Russia, besieged Aleppo. Huda Khayti [...]

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 [...]

''ISIS is not over'': Attacks in Syria and Iraq make clear that the militants have lost neither their will to fight nor their ability to do so. BAGHDAD, Iraq -- [...]