shaking up a civil war that had long been at a stalemate. The new rebel offensive began last week in Aleppo Province in northwestern Syria. By the beginning of the weekend, antigovernment forces ...

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 ...

In just two weeks, Syrian rebels have swept from their ... 13 years after the start of the country's civil war. In convoys of small vehicles and motorbikes, fighters led by the rebel group Hayat ...

On Dec. 8, after nearly 54 years in power and 13 years of war, the Syrian civil war came to an end ... Ismail was born in the U.S. and did not visit Syria until last summer. Ismail said he felt a ...

The sudden downfall of longtime Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at the hands of a rapid rebel offensive has brought a dramatic new turn to Syria's nearly 14-year civil war. While opponents of the ...

Syria's economy has been decimated by more than a decade of civil war and sanctions that have severed it from the global ...

Mortar shells and gunfire from the Syrian civil war began spilling into the Golan in ... the opportunity to attack Israel, as terrorists did following Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza in 2005.

Start your Independent Premium subscription ... who perished in what was one of the deadliest moments of Syria’s civil war. The gas that was used — sarin, an extremely toxic nerve agent ...

2 (UPI) --Years of civil war ... aid in Syria is at an all-time high with 70% of Syrians in need of help, the European Commission said in an online assessment. The Syrian crisis started 13 years ...

In Syria, women begin picking up the pieces of a broken nation. Photographs and text by Lynsey Addario More than 600,000 Syrians died during 13 years of civil war ... But she did find the corpse ...