The Syrian military stepped up its campaign to drive rebel fighters out of Aleppo. Hospitals and makeshift clinics in rebel-held eastern neighborhoods were filling up with casualties from a week ...

The area around Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, is famous for the Dead Cities, a group of about 700 abandoned settlements, empty since the 10th century. These were once of great interest to ...

Aleppo, once Syria's largest city and commercial hub, had witnessed intense clashes throughout the war, but in July 2016, the Syrian military laid siege to the embattled city for the second time.

Syrian and Russian airstrikes on rebel-held areas of Aleppo were suspended Tuesday following a monthlong bombing campaign. Access to the area has been cut, trapping 275,000 civilians, according to ...

Strategically, however, the battle is about reconnecting Aleppo and its environs to its historic hinterland in Turkey, much as Homs and Hama had been historically connected to Northern Lebanon.

The latest battle for Aleppo is not just over the fate of the city or even the fate of the Syrian civil war. The balance of power in the region as a whole is also at stake.

It was a Saturday evening on June 16, 1979, when a duty officer in the Aleppo Artillery School, Capt. Ibrahim Yousef, called some 300 cadets for an urgent meeting in the mess hall. After the hall ...

The Syrian regime and its allies were trying to push back the western front outside Aleppo, my home town, in April. The city had been the center of the Syrian war for almost five years; the regime ...

A fast-moving cataclysm underway in and around Aleppo has brought together all the major actors in Syria’s civil war for what may be the most crucial battle of the five-year conflict, and it is ...

Feature June 5, 2013 The Battle for Aleppo A special report from behind rebel lines. Says one fighter, ‘The hatred in our hearts is growing. I worry that one day it will be bigger than our ...