The insurgent offensive, shocking for its speed, has posed the most serious challenge to President Bashar al-Assad in years.

Russia has carried out air strikes on parts of the Syrian city of Aleppo after areas were seized by rebels opposed to the ...

Russia's Defence Ministry said its air force had carried out strikes on Syrian rebels in support of the country's army, ...

Syrian opposition forces have taken control of much of the country’s second largest city Aleppo after a lightning advance ...

The rapid advance on Aleppo came just four days into a surprise rebel offensive that is the most intense escalation in years ...

The surprise attack, led by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, was the boldest rebel assault for years in the civil war ...

Syria’s rebels seized most of Aleppo on Saturday as their sweeping advance ousted Russian forces from at least three military ...

Assad, the Syrian dictator, to retake Aleppo after part of the city fell to insurgents in 2012. Less than four days is how ...

Amid a rapid-fire collapse of Syrian, Hezbollah, Russian and Iranian forces in northern Syria, questions are surfacing about ...

Rebel forces opposing President Bashar al-Assad have launched their biggest offensive in years this week, controlling a ...

With Russia and Iran devoting much of their resources to their own wars, the Syrian rebels took Aleppo with little resistance ...

For the first time since 2012, Assad is on his own. It took his forces four years to capture Aleppo – the rebels could take ...