The primary group behind the offensive is believed to be Ha’yat Tahrir al-Sham (known as HTS or Tahrir al-Sham), which emerged at the outset of the Syrian civil war. It is an offshoot of an Al ...

Nick Schifrin discussed the reignition of the civil war and its implications with Charles Lister of the Middle East Institute. In Syria today, Russian and Syrian warplanes targeted civilian areas ...

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Syria's civil war began in 2011 after civilians led pro-democracy protests against Assad, and his government responded by opening fire on its own people. The ensuing war is thought to have killed ...

Russia’s intervention in Syria’s civil war almost a decade ago turned the tide in Assad’s favor, but this time around his two biggest backers are stretched. Vladimir Putin’s invasion of ...

The 13-year civil war in Syria has roared back into prominence with a surprise rebel offensive during which they seized Aleppo, one of Syria’s largest cities and an ancient business hub.

Unspoken and unnamed, sexual violence has too often been tacitly accepted as an inevitable byproduct of war. It isn’t. Sexual violence is a grave violation of international humanitarian law.

The slowdown is worrying for the Kremlin but not serious enough to significantly hobble its war effort. By Anatoly Kurmanaev Reporting from Berlin The wartime economy that Russia spurred into ...

But almost no attention has been placed on one of the major contributors to this inflation: the war in Ukraine, and the decision to repeatedly reject negotiating its end. Of course, Ukrainians ...

The Ministry of Defence is war-gaming a major conflict to "stress-test" supplies of ammunition and equipment in a war time scenario. The MoD says it is the first war games to involve ...

Syria's civil war grew out of Assad's brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protests in 2011. More than a decade later, about half a million people have been killed, according to The Syrian ...

When the fighting flared up again in late November, it marked a stunning challenge to Assad that refocused global attention on the nation’s years-long civil war. Since its start in 2011 ...