A Moscow-backed regime offensive in northwest Syria is undermining an arrangement by Russia and Turkey for the anti-government bastion, but their own interests should prevent a total falling-out, analysts say. Syrian government forces launched a ground offensive against the jihadist-run...

Israel raised the stakes in its regional rivalry with Iran over the weekend by carrying out a flurry of attacks against its forces and their proxies in three different countries. Israeli drones and aircraft struck a number of Iran-allied militia groups in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon over the...

Hussam Alhallak and his wife kept thinking that the war in Syria would end, or that at least conditions would improve. But it persisted, with gunfire in the streets and bombings that drove the couple and their two young children into their basement for protection. They just wanted to move...

Airstrikes targeted Syria's last major rebel stronghold in the northwestern province of Idlib on Monday, killing at least nine people, including a woman and her child, opposition activists sad. The attacks come as regime forces turn their focus on another rebel-held town in Idlib,...