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Fighting has engulfed Syria – 13 years after the start of the Civil War – as a new Jihadist-led coalition is attempting to overthrow president Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
Syria’s chaotic war opened the way for the Islamic State to expand across the border in 2013. IS has seized about a third of Syria, and has placed its capital in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa.
In today's Media Miss Minute: 83% of Palestinians killed in war were civilians; and U.S. forces have killed an ISIS leader.
STORY: Syrian rebels' capture of Aleppo from President Bashar al-Assad has brought the Syrian civil war back into focus, jolting frontlines that were dormant for years.Assad's government has vowed ...
Syrian Opposition Forces Advance on Aleppo Amid Heavy Fighting Published Nov 29, 2024 at 8:41 AM EST Updated Nov 29, 2024 at 8:49 AM EST By Shamim Chowdhury ...
The government has vowed to fight back. Russia, which deployed its air force to Syria in 2015 to help Assad, is conducting airstrikes in support of the army.
BEIRUT Syrian troops and rebels clashed again Thursday in the capital Damascus, a day after what activists described as the heaviest fighting in months in President Bashar Assad's seat of power.
An inquiry found that members of the new government’s forces took part in killing Syrian civilians during sectarian fighting ...
A version of this article appears in print on Dec. 4, 2024, Section A, Page 8 of the New York edition with the headline: Renewed War in Northwestern Syria Levels Schools and Hospitals.
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.