The jihadi rebels who toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad say they want to build a unified, inclusive country. For Syria’s ...

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Assad, as a rebel-linked caretaker prime minister was appointed to oversee the transition of power. Follow for live updates.

Slender shoulders, a limp handshake and soft-spoken lisp. Those were the most vivid memories from my meeting with Bashar al ...

The U.S. is communicating with rebel groups inside Syria amid the search for missing American journalist Austin Tice, State ...

Assad’s government by armed opposition groups has created a momentous opportunity for Syria to break with decades of ...

Sharaa's Islamist group is stamping its authority on Syria's state with the same lightning speed that it seized the country, ...

Sham, the leading rebel force, must work to allay public fears that it will seek to replace Assadism with its own form of absolute rule.

The sea change toward tenuous hope in Syria over the last two weeks has been tempered with a grim accounting of the last 14 years of war and a half a century of authoritarian rule under the Assad ...

The Assad regime suddenly and dramatically fell Sunday after 13 years of brutal war. Here's a brief background.

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, whose name means Organization for the Liberation of the Levant, was the main rebel group leading the ...

In just over a week, Syrian rebel forces seized much of Syria’s northwest. First, the rebels captured Syria’s largest city, ...