( The Washington Post )- What did the CIA’s covert assistance program for Syrian rebels accomplish? Bizarrely, the biggest consequence may be that it helped trigger the Russian military intervention in 2015 that rescued President Bashar al-Assad — achieving the opposite of what the program...

Six Syrian actors battled a fraught U.S. visa process to tread the boards in New York this week, seeking to impress upon American theatergoers the human cost of a war raging halfway round the world. Nothing could be further from the typical summer entertainment in this city of flamboyant wealth...

 At least 28 Syrian government soldiers and pro-regime fighters were killed Wednesday in a rebel ambush in the eastern Ghouta region near Damascus, a monitor said Thursday. The fighters came under attack by the Army of Islam rebel group as they attempted to advance in the town of...

The parents of a U.S. journalist kidnapped in Syria nearly five years ago issued a new plea for his release on Thursday. Austin Tice, a freelance reporter and former U.S. Marine from Houston, Texas, was kidnapped in August 2012 aged 31 while reporting in Damascus on the uprising against...