BEIRUT Syrian rebels and fighters from the al-Qaida-affiliated Nusra Front have captured the only functioning border crossing with Jordan and three nearby military posts, prompting intense government ...

Syrian rebels ousted pro-government forces from Hama on Thursday, bringing the insurgents a major new victory after a lightning advance across northern Syria and dealing a new blow to President Bashar ...

Syrian opposition militias have stormed Hama city in central Syria, in a sweeping offensive that threatens the stability of President Bashar Assad's regime. In 13 years of civil war, in which other ...

Syrian opposition fighters removing a government flag from an official building Saturday in Salamiyah, east of Hama. (Ghaith Alsayed/Associated Press) The main rebel group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, is an ...

BEIRUT (AP) — A new video appears to show Syrian rebels killing a group of captured soldiers, drawing condemnations from human rights groups who warned on Friday that the gunmen may have committed a ...

The Syrian government has fallen in a stunning end to the 50-year iron-fist rule of the Assad family in the wake of a rapid rebel offensive. Syrian opposition forces declared victory over President ...

BEIRUT -- U.N. observers Thursday inspected the site of an explosion that flattened a block of houses in the central Syrian city of Hama and killed at least 16 people, while the government and the ...