Since the Syrian civil war began, around 2012, approximately 6.9 million people have been internally displaced, and an additional 6.8 million are refugees, mainly in Turkey and Jordan — and Lebanon, ...
In the Levant, Syria’s smoldering civil war flared up, with an apparently reformed Islamist terrorist organization retaking the northern city of Aleppo. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, surprised even ...
Over the past dozen years, Syrian militant leader Abu Mohammed al-Golani has worked to remake his image and the insurgency he ...
Syria's long-running civil war has been off the radar for a while, but the stunning, out-of-the-blue capture of Aleppo—the ...
Amid the ongoing unrest in Syria, the rise of rebel groups like Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) poses new challenges for Israel’s ...
The Syrian government claims to have repelled the HTS advance on Hama, but pro-rebel sources claim the opposite.
Islamist rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham launched a lightning assault against pro-Assad forces in Aleppo. Here’s who else is ...
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