Syria ’s new interim leader announced on Tuesday he was taking charge of the country as caretaker prime minister with the backing of the former opposition forces who toppled president Bashar al-Assad three days ago. In a brief address on state television, Mohammed al-Bashir, a figure...

The Syrian opposition factions, through two simultaneous military operations, were able to control the Military Engineering Academy, the Artillery College, and one of the neighborhoods of Aleppo city, in addition to controlling the cities of Al-Safira and Khanaser in the southeastern...

Russian and Syrian jets struck the opposition-held city of Idlib on Sunday in the second day of intensive bombing in northern Syria aimed at pushing back fighters who had swept through to the city of Aleppo, Syrian army sources said. Residents said one of the raids hit a crowded residential...

Russian and Syrian regime's war planes bombed rebel-held northwest Syria near the border with Turkey on Thursday to push back an insurgent offensive that captured territory for the first time in years, Syrian army and rebel sources said. Rebels led by militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham on...