Over 100 fighters were killed in clashes Thursday between regime and militant-led forces in northwest Syria, as violence raged on the edge of an opposition bastion despite a September truce deal. In nearby Afrin, a car bombing killed 13 people in the latest violence to hit the city that...

BEIRUT: A car bomb near a checkpoint manned by Turkey-backed rebels in the northern Syrian city of Afrin killed 13 people including eight civilians Thursday, a war monitor said. Turkish troops and their Syrian proxies took control of Afrin from Kurdish forces in March last year after a...

Syrian man jailed by the Bashar al-Assad regime has haunting memories of unbearable torture and abuse in the interrogation centers.   Jamal Abidin Najjar, a mechanical engineer, was detained while he was traveling from Syria to Lebanon as a warrant had been issued for his arrest...

President Bashar al-Assad’s assault in the northwest has been met with a painful rebel counterpunch that underlines Turkish resolve to keep the area out of his hands and shows why he will struggle to take back more of Syria by force. More than two months of Russian-backed operations in...