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Mr. al-Assad’s international backers, including Russia, Iran and the Lebanese militia Hezbollah, are weakened, distracted by ...
An offensive by opposition forces in Syria is redrawing the map of areas controlled by the rebels, despite Russian-backed ...
Syrian rebels — led by the Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) — stormed western Aleppo Friday, in the most dramatic ... US-designated terrorist and former head of Al Qaeda in ...
In just a few days, a patchwork of forces has seized control of a broad stretch of land in the west and northwest of Syria.
It was not immediately clear how deeply the rebels had penetrated Aleppo or whether they would ... s western countryside as residents fled. Syria’s civil war has quieted in recent years, but ...
Iran has thrown its support behind Syria's government after thousands of insurgents took control of the country's largest ...
Diminished support for the Syrian government from Iran, Hezbollah and Russia enabled opposition forces to take the initiative ...