Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anti-Assad fighters stationed at the airport in Aleppo on Dec. 2, 2024. Omar Haj Kadour/AFP via Getty Images A major offensive has ...

Bashar Assad's government in Syria collapsed on Sunday, ending his 24 years in power. Rebel forces led by the group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham swept through Syria, seizing Damascus. Here's what we know ...

A major offensive has seen rebel groups in Syria retake the country’s second city, Aleppo–and demonstrated the growing prominence of the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in the 13-year-long civil ...

The group now advancing, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, says it wants to replace the Assad government with one inspired by Islamic principles. By Vivian Yee Alissa J. Rubin and Raja Abdulrahim Vivian Yee ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I focus on the nexus of AI adoption, energy, and geopolitics. Damascus has fallen with little resistance from the regime. History, ...

Since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011, various local militant groups have risen to prominence.

The military chief leading Syria’s rebel forces who ousted President Bashar al-Assad’s regime has roots in Islamic extremist groups — including past ties al Qaeda. Now, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani — who ...

President Bashar al-Assad’s nearly quarter-century rule over Syria crumbled on Sunday, after rebels advanced into the capital, Damascus, in the culmination of an assault that lasted less than two ...