Syria War Map Shows Territory Captured as Rebels Advance. ... (HTS) is a Sunni Islamist political and militant group that was set up in 2011 which has a key role in the Syrian civil war.

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syria's President Bashar al-Assad on Monday branded an Islamist-led offensive that has captured swathes of territory a bid to redraw the map of the region in line with US ...

A regime air strike killed Syrian photographer Anas Alkharboutli, who was working for German news agency dpa, near the city of Hama. Alkharboutli, 32, had long documented Syria’s 13-year war.

Syrian opposition supporters stand atop a captured Syrian army tank in the town of Maarat al Numan, southwest of Aleppo, Syria, Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024.

Five maps of Syria to help break down the conflict. Published May 28th, 2015 - 06:42 GMT. Al Bawaba. ... When looking at a map without the desert, ...

Syrian government forces have lost control of Daraa city, a war monitor said, in another stunning blow for President Bashar al-Assad's rule after rebels wrested other key cities from his ...

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More than six years after the Syrian revolution erupted, the country’s future is still hazy, clouded with the smoke of mortars and the dust of flattened neighborhoods. At least one thing is ...

Syria will let humanitarian aid flow through its main border crossing into rebel-held areas, reopening a conduit that had closed after a Security Council ...

Sunni militants under the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant took over more towns in Syria near the border with Iraq on Thursday, working to expand their claim on the area after declaring a new ...

Syria’s intractable civil war became even more complicated last week when Russian warplanes started attacking rebel positions to support the country’s government. What began in 2011 as a ...