Map Shows Middle East Alliances: Russia, Iran, Israel, Syria
As rebels make progress in their fight against Assad's government, Newsweek has mapped the regional approach to the conflict.
What to Know About Bashar Assad, Syria’s Fallen Dictator
Bashar Assad instead became a doctor in the 1980s and was studying in London to be an ophthalmologist in the early 1990s. But ...
What’s happening in Syria? Everything we know as President Assad flees and rebels claim victory
Syrian rebels freed prisoners, tore down statues and plundered Bashar al-Assad’s Damascus palace as his brutal regime ...
Syria Map Shows Buffer Zone Amid Israel's Advances
Security sources have stated that Israeli forces in Syria have reached the southern city of Qatana, around 16 miles from ...
Russia scrambling to keep hold of key Syria bases as Putin faces loss of gateway to Africa
Russia is scrambling to make a deal with Syria’s victorious rebels to keep hold of its vital military bases after the ...
Key players in Syria’s long-running civil war, reignited by a shock rebel offensive
Syria’s long civil war has reclaimed global attention after insurgents seized most of its largest city and dozens of nearby ...
Syria War Map Shows Territory Captured as Rebels Advance
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) is a Sunni Islamist political and militant group that was set up in 2011 which has a key role in ...
West should not fear us, Syria’s rebel leader insists
Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) fighters are advancing on the Kurdish-majority city of Kobane in northern Syria, ...
What Syria’s rebel takeover means for the region’s major players: Turkey, Iran and Russia
Russia and Iran are no longer the major players in Syria. But if the rebel groups in Syria cannot build a transitional ...