It almost sounds like a Tom Clancy novel: a few hundred pro-Assad fighters, including Russian Wagner Group mercenaries, charge an American position in the Syrian desert. American troops respond with ...

Extensive Russian influence in Syria goes back to the Soviet era and survived the collapse of the USSR and the end of communism. It appears that now Russian influence in Syria has survived the fall of ...

One year after Syrian rebel forces stormed Damascus and brought down President Bashar al Assad’s regime, the struggle to shape a new political order has intensified. The fall of Assad in late 2024 ...

Syrian troops are poised to attack towns in the north and east held by Kurdish fighters, sources familiar with the matter said, to pressure autonomy-minded Kurds into making concessions in deadlocked ...