THIS VIDEO CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGESFor three days in March, Syrian Alawites were killed by the hundreds.We knew we needed to ...

Syrian architect Abdel Aziz al-Mohammed could barely recognise his war-ravaged village when he returned after years away. Now ...

The scale of the problem isn’t captured by numbers yet, either. One estimate says there are more than 300,000 mines across Syria, but there is not yet one map or figure that takes into account all the ...

Baathist leaders struggled to unify Syria which, to this day, is a patchwork of ideologies, religions and ethnicities (see map 4). In 1970 the defence minister, Hafez al-Assad, took over the party ...

Syrian rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham has governed in Idlib, northwest Syria, since 2017. Now that the Assad regime has fallen at the hands of the Islamist group, could Idlib be a model for ...

Syrian rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham has governed in Idlib, northwest Syria, since 2017. Now that the Assad regime has fallen at the hands of the Islamist group, could Idlib be a model for ...

Syria has for years been controlled by a patchwork of rebel groups including HTS in Idlib and Kurdish-led groups in the country's north east, some of which have also taken territory in recent days ...

Syria has entered the abyss. The state just dissolved in the middle of the night; the police and army went home, leaving weapons depots open for looting. The prison doors were flung open. Inside were ...

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), one of the Syrian rebel groups that led the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has appointed Mohammed al-Bashir as the leader of Syria’s interim government.

Al-Nusra and the Free Syrian Army were controlling parts of Idlib in the northwest. Other militant groups were controlling Hama, Homs, and even some neighbourhoods of Damascus.

The first thrust was sudden. For years, the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham consolidated control in its stronghold in Idlib in Syria’s northwest. Then on Nov. 27, the rebels suddenly began a ...

On November 27, Syrian opposition forces initiated a swift offensive from the northwest, sweeping out of Idlib province and overwhelming unprepared government troops, who reportedly retreated in large ...