A view from the first city taken by the rebels who ousted President Bashar al-Assad, scene of a brutal Russian-backed ...

The Taliban outlasted both the U.S.-led coalition and the Afghan National Army. It is now the de facto government of Afghanistan. Whether the West likes it or not, a terrorist group we spent decades ...

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The toppling of Bashar Assad has raised tentative hopes that Syrians might live peacefully and as equals after a half century ...

After public protests and then rebellion erupted in Syria in 2011, Assad’s regime clung to power through systemic torture and ...

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Middle East scholar Mordechai Kedar lays out the opportunities developing in Syria and the potential Sunni wave that may topple Iran—with Israeli help.

(AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed) Syrian opposition fighters manoeuvre using armoured vehicles seized from the Syrian army in the town of Maarat al-Numan, south of Idlib ... on a popular uprising against ...

In the days since al-Assad fell on 8 December, following a rapid advance from Idlib to Damascus by rebels led by Hayat Tahrir ...