Syrian helicopters dropped explosives-packed barrels near rebel-held Yabrud on Tuesday, a monitoring group said, nearly three weeks into a major offensive targeting the strategic town near the Lebanese border. The strikes come a day after at least 15 rebels were killed fighting in the...

FOR FIVE YEARS, President Obama has led a foreign policy based more on how he thinks the world should operate than on reality. It was  a world in which  “ the tide of war is receding ” and the United States could, without much risk, radically reduce the size of its armed forces....

FiSyria, the website close to the Islamic State of Iraq and as-Sham’s Chechen military Amir Umar Shishani, has posted a Russian-subtitled video in which an ISIS fighter talks about outreach and conflict with insurgent factions in Syria: It is not clear exactly when the video was...

Even as it is proclaiming a political strategy of “reconciliation” through local truces and aid to civilians, the Assad regime has renewed its long-standing siege on the Damascus suburb of Moadamiya. Activists said that the Syrian military is demanding that Free Syrian Army...