WASHINGTON, Nov 9 (Reuters) - The United States on Monday imposed sanctions on officials, entities and individuals it accused of providing support to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as Washington ...

President Donald Trump declared in his first term that the Islamic State group was defeated and that U.S. troops would leave Syria. This weekend, a gunman linked to the Islamic State group killed two ...

AMSTERDAM, Oct 2 (Reuters) - The global chemical weapons watchdog on Friday said it had been unable to determine whether banned toxic agents had been used in attacks on two Syrian towns in 2016 and ...

In December, a band of rebel groups led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham shocked the world by ousting Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. HTS’s leader, Ahmed al-Shara, created a government to oversee the ...

Revisit FRONTLINE’s documentaries on the Syrian war's devastating human toll, the journeys of those displaced, the foreign interventions and the long shadow of the conflict. Syrian citizens try to ...

More than a decade of devastating conflict has left Syria’s economy in tatters, its infrastructure in ruins and its population deeply fragmented. The fledgling transitional government in Damascus, ...

Once the war began in 2011, exploring Syria freely became nearly impossible. On one trip in 2013, the group’s bus was shot at. Two years later, during a hike in a nature reserve in central Hama ...

Syrian and U.S. troops were returning from a joint patrol on Saturday when a shooter attacked them at the gate of a military base in Palmyra, a former stronghold of the Islamic State group. U.S.