The longtime enemies have opened contacts, reflecting a power shift across a Middle East in which they have newfound common ...

Civil war On 12 June 2012, the United Nations officially declared Syria to be in a state of civil war, following the failure of an attempted ceasefire in April.

Syrian opposition fighters have made their most significant advance in years against government forces, shaking up a civil war that had long been at a stalemate.. The new rebel offensive began ...

By June 2012, the United Nations declared that the fighting in Syria was a full-blown civil war. After years of fighting, Syrian government forces backed by Russia, Hezbollah and Iran retook much ...

The Syrian conflict began as part of the Arab Spring, aimed at overthrowing Bashar al-Assad and achieving reform. Over a decade later, ... Syria’s Civil War – Did It Achieve Anything?

A Syrian official says firefighters are facing heavy winds, high temperatures and ordnance left behind from the country's ...

The Syrian Civil War would be frozen in place for the next four years. In this Feb. 26, 2016 file photo, a Syrian boy rides a bicycle through a devastated part of the old city of Homs, Syria. (AP ...

The United States must press the Syrian Transitional Government to bring the perpetrators of the Saint Elias Church attack to ...

Most folks will tell you the Civil War began April 12, 1861, with the first shots fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. Many historians, however, say the war actually began 164 years ago this ...

The belligerents are the last survivors of Syria’s hugely destructive civil war, which began in 2011 as another Arab Spring revolution, with antigovernment protesters demanding Assad leave.

This is a major turnaround for Ankara, which demanded an end to the Assad regime after the 2011 civil war began and occupied territory in Syria’s northwest. It seems likely that the Turks are ...

What led to Syria’s 13-year civil war, and why did fighting surge again? The sudden assault by Syrian rebels has toppled the regime of Bashar al-Assad, less than two weeks after fighting flared up.