Rebel forces pressing a lightning offensive in Syria aim to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad's rule, their Islamist leader ...

The foreign ministers of Turkey, Iran, and Russia will meet in Doha on Saturday to discuss a lightning rebel advance in Syria ...

When Syrian anti-regime forces swept across the countryside surrounding government-held Aleppo to capture the city in just ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) -Thousands of people fled the central Syrian city of Homs overnight and into Friday morning, a war ...

A monitor of Syria's war said rebels were just five kilometres (three miles) from third city Homs on Friday, after controlling two strategic towns on the road linking it to Hama.

Qaeda, have sought to soften their image in recent years, many worry they will revert to their repressive roots.

Since bursting out of their pocket of territory in the northwest of the country more than a week ago, the rebels ... blow to ...

One of the darkest moments in the modern history of the Arab world happened more than four decades ago, when then-Syrian ...

Hezbollah's new leader has said the group will once again side with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad against rebel forces.

A NATO ally confronts the risks of a widening Middle East conflict.

Assad's Alawite minority community were fleeing Syria's third city Homs Thursday, for fear that Islamist-led rebels would keep up their advance, a war monitor said.

The conflict in Syria has escalated dramatically, and Islamist rebels have caught many by surprise with rapid territorial ...